Yodelling taken to new heights: Swiss folk singing adapts to modern era
Long confined to tourist clichés, Swiss yodelling is moving on from being a folkloric curiosity. This ancient Alpine vocal technique, which alternates between "chest voice" and "head voice", was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in December 2025. Today, yodelling is sung in a multitude of contexts and crosses the boundaries of folk music to blend with rock, pop and even rap. FRANCE 24's Jade Lévin reports, with Josh Vardey.
Long confined to tourist clichés, Swiss yodelling is moving on from being a folkloric curiosity. This ancient Alpine vocal technique, which alternates between "chest voice" and "head voice", was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in December 2025. Today, yodelling is sung in a multitude of contexts and crosses the boundaries of folk music to blend with rock, pop and even rap. FRANCE 24's Jade Lévin reports, with Josh Vardey.
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