Word: hollers
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...label him first among his peers in local organizing. He has chosen to work within the system and manages to twist it against itself into grudgingly granting black demands, but he does not disparage other voices, other tactics. "No man can tell a man who is hurting how to holler," he argues. "The business of trying to decry people because of the way they complain of injustice is past and gone...
...music to encompass the total black experience, says Tenor Saxophonist Archie Shepp: "The field holler, the ring shout,* the sanctified church. That doesn't exclude white people, but if white people are to be included, they must emerge with a kind of humility," For Trumpeter Don Cherry, the music speaks most eloquently for the whole musician. "Man is a species, all human," Cherry observes. "The rest is pastels. Beware of distractions...
...Crimson needed a holler guy as captain this year, and although Cramer provided leadership by example on the field, he just wasn't the vocal type. Farneti was, and he supplied the inspiration that made the defense go this season...
...that dates back to way before the days of the telephone. Hollerin' is the way folks used to communicate when they lived a mile or more apart. It requires a lot of lung power, and just plain shouting will not do. Traditionally, each farmer had a set of hollers that were recognizable as his own by their beat, melody and style of delivery. Some hollers were based on familiar hymn tunes, like Amazing Grace or What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Still others sounded like coyotes baying at the moon. The hollerer had to focus his tone sharply...
...Jeanne Marie Brown of New Orleans, who charmed the judges with her "Dismal Swamp Call." Dewey Jackson won the big gold trophy, as expected, then triumphed in the duet competition with his brother O. B. But Henry Parsons, 73, became everybody's sentimental favorite with the holler that he used as a boy when he drove the wagon in for the evening. Splitting the air with a high, resounding falsetto, he yodeled up and down the scale like a goatherd piping to his flock. Said Parsons: "I would holler my holler, and by the time I got home...