ululation

A speaker who toasted his hope of celebrating next year’s Christmas in Jerusalem in a “free Palestine” prompted ululations.

American fusion dancers use the facial markings of Indigenous North African tribes and traditional high-pitched ululations.

Her style here can seem of a piece with industrial and death metal music of the period, but then suddenly swerves into folk keening and ululation.

Eventually, as guitar and muted trumpet intensified with ululations and drums, he shared his thoughts about the meaning of “we” and everyone’s complicity in injustice.

You could hear Philip Glass’s “Music in 12 Parts” at Leo Castelli Gallery, or Meredith Monk’s a cappella ululations at the Walker Art Center.