Mouth Music (1981)

• Documentary

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.

Release date

January 1, 1981

Runtime

25m

Language

English

Director

Blaine Dunlap, Sol Korine

Status

Released