 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 760 str.
...with dogs, barking, yelping, hacking, shouting, and whistling, after 'coons and 'possums. Returning to the rail-road, I found a comfortable, warm passenger-car,...awakened by loud laughter, and, looking out, saw that the loading gang of negroes had 'made a fire, and were enjoying a right merry repast. Suddenly, one raised... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 756 str.
...went to sleep. At midnight I was awakened by loud laughter, and, looking out, saw that the loading gang of negroes had made a fire, and were enjoying...sound as I never heard before ; a long, loud, musical siii.nl, rising, and falling, and breaking into falsetto, his voice ringing through the woods in the... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 756 str.
...with dogs, barking, yelping, hacking, shouting, and whistling, after 'coons and 'possums. Returning to the rail-road, I found a comfortable, warm passenger-car,...awakened by loud laughter, and, looking out, saw that the loading gang of negroes had made a fire, and were enjoying a right merry repast. Suddenly, one raised... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1904 - 428 str.
...with dogs, barking, yelping, hacking, shouting, and whistling, after 'coons and 'possums. Returning to the railroad, I found a comfortable, warm passenger-car,...awakened by loud laughter, and, looking out, saw that the loading gang of negroes had made a fire, and were enjoying a right merry repast. Suddenly, one raised... | |
 | Harold Courlander - 1992 - 358 str.
...jodling" or "the Carolina yell." The scene was in South Carolina, night time along the railroad tracks: "At midnight I was awakened by loud laughter, and, looking out, saw that the loading gang of negroes [slaves hired out to the railroad] had made a fire and were enjoying a right... | |
 | Betty M. Kuyk - 2003 - 308 str.
...run away." "Harlern" was hollering. In the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted described it as "such a sound as I never heard before, a long, loud,...shout, rising, and falling, and breaking into falsetto . . . ringing through the woods . . . like a bugle call." Slaves sent messages to each other by hollering,... | |
 | Ronald M. Radano - 2003 - 454 str.
...Recalling his first encounter with "The Carolina Yell," Olmsted described a group of yodelers that "raised such a sound as I never heard before; a long, loud, musical shout, rising and falling . . . [their] voice[s] ringing through the woods in the clear, frosty night air, like a bugle call."85... | |
 | Elijah Wald - 2004 - 380 str.
...to North Carolina in 1853 gave an early description of a "field holler," writing of a black man who "raised such a sound as I never heard before: a long,...musical shout, rising and falling and breaking into falsetto."2 When folklorists headed into the rural South with portable disc cutters in the 1930s, such... | |
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possums. Returning to the rail-road, I found a comfortable, warm passenger-car, and, wrapped in my blanket, went to sleep. At midnight I was awakened by loud laughter, and, looking out, saw that the loading gang of negroes had made a fire, and were enjoying... 