Mouth Music

Mouth Music

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1981

Runtime

0h 25m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Mouth Music

Production Companies

Blaine Dunlap/PRESERIVSTA

Director

Blaine Dunlap

Description

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a cappella performance styles as well as unique expressive vocal forms that have evolved as part of daily life, work, and play: hollerin’, jump-rope rhymes, “eephing,” nonsense songs, auctioneering, drill sergeant’s patter and others.