Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Hollering is a folk art developed to communicate across long distances or to call to animals and livestock. Learn about this oldest of traditions- and how you can holler too!
Learn to holler: youtu.be/QlrNccFShCo
Hear some expressive hollering: youtu.be/2WObqXK-GtQ
THANK YOU to my Patrons!
patreon.com/sarolynch
BECOME A PATRON with monthly donations!
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*WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME*
Website: sarosings.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/sarosings
Instagram: instagram.com/song_speak_saro
*Credits*
Writer and Producer: Saro Lynch-Thomason
Editorial Advice: Rochelle Hudson
Sources:
“Welcome to Spivey’s Corner,” Filmed and produced by Kier Kline, 1978. folkstreams.net/film-detail.php?id=238
“Hollerin,’” Recorded by Bill Nowlin, Bill Phillips, and Mark Wilson. Notes by Mark Wilson. Somerville, Mass.: Rounder Records, 1976.
Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 1: “Secular Music.” New York: Folkways Records, 1960. Tracks 13-17, including various field calls and greeting calls. Collected by Harold Courlander.
“Some Notes on the Southern ‘Holler’” by Ray B. Browne (1954). The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 67, No. 263 (pp. 73-77).
“Work Songs.” By Ted Goioia. Duke University Press (2006).
Images & Film:
"Kulning- Ancient Swedish Herding Call," youtube.com/watch?v=KvtT3UyhibQ
"Yodelling: Franzl Lang," youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU
"Hollerin': The National Hollerin' Contest," youtube.com/watch?v=WiIh4jgnli4
“Altamira Bisons” by Thomas Quine. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
“Rock Shelter, Bimbekta” by Bernard Gagnon. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
“Myrkur at St John On Bethnal Green.” Photo by Paul Hudson. Photo has been cropped.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
“Austria-01509 - Yodeling” By Dennis Jarvis.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
“This away,” “Basque Joy Holler,” “Hollerin.” Photos by Gerry Dincher
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Music & Sound: “Medley of Straight Jigs” by John J. Kimmel.
Hollering is a folk art developed to communicate across long distances or to call to animals and livestock. Learn about this oldest of traditions- and how you can holler too!
Learn to holler: youtu.be/QlrNccFShCo
Hear some expressive hollering: youtu.be/2WObqXK-GtQ
THANK YOU to my Patrons!
patreon.com/sarolynch
BECOME A PATRON with monthly donations!
patreon.com/sarolynch
*WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME*
Website: sarosings.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/sarosings
Instagram: instagram.com/song_speak_saro
*Credits*
Writer and Producer: Saro Lynch-Thomason
Editorial Advice: Rochelle Hudson
Sources:
“Welcome to Spivey’s Corner,” Filmed and produced by Kier Kline, 1978. folkstreams.net/film-detail.php?id=238
“Hollerin,’” Recorded by Bill Nowlin, Bill Phillips, and Mark Wilson. Notes by Mark Wilson. Somerville, Mass.: Rounder Records, 1976.
Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 1: “Secular Music.” New York: Folkways Records, 1960. Tracks 13-17, including various field calls and greeting calls. Collected by Harold Courlander.
“Some Notes on the Southern ‘Holler’” by Ray B. Browne (1954). The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 67, No. 263 (pp. 73-77).
“Work Songs.” By Ted Goioia. Duke University Press (2006).
Images & Film:
"Kulning- Ancient Swedish Herding Call," youtube.com/watch?v=KvtT3UyhibQ
"Yodelling: Franzl Lang," youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU
"Hollerin': The National Hollerin' Contest," youtube.com/watch?v=WiIh4jgnli4
“Altamira Bisons” by Thomas Quine. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
“Rock Shelter, Bimbekta” by Bernard Gagnon. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
“Myrkur at St John On Bethnal Green.” Photo by Paul Hudson. Photo has been cropped.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
“Austria-01509 - Yodeling” By Dennis Jarvis.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
“This away,” “Basque Joy Holler,” “Hollerin.” Photos by Gerry Dincher
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Music & Sound: “Medley of Straight Jigs” by John J. Kimmel.
