The Columbian

A shout-out to yodeling?

LUCERNE, Switzerland — Yodel-ay-hee … what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could soon ...
Hartford Courant

Shout-out for yodeling? Swiss seek recognition from UN cultural agency as tradition turns modern

LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) — Yodel-ay-hee … what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could ...

UNESCO has officially added yodeling to its list of 'Intangible Cultural Heritage'

Yodeling has been officially recognized by the UN as part of the world's intangible cultural heritage. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We all know yodeling, right? Alpine men and women singing across verdant ...
WBOC

UNESCO gives a shout-out to Switzerland's yodeling by adding it to list of cultural heritage

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's long-celebrated yodeling has received a response from the U.N. cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant and song is indeed worthy of classification in a list of the ...
KHQ

Yo-de-lay-UNESCO? Swiss hope for yodel heritage listing

Switzerland hopes to have yodelling recognised by the United Nations this month to help protect the ancestral sing-song tradition of the Alpine nation's herders and shepherds. As bound up with the ...
insider.si.edu

Yodeling and meaning in American music Timothy E. Wise

1. Classifying Yodeled Effects in Popular Music Yodel Species -- 2. Yodel Sign and Yodel Idea in Nineteenth-Century Art Music -- 3. Yodeling in Nineteenth-Century Vocal Music -- 4. Americanizing the ...
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Swiss government put forward yodeling as candidate for UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage

Whether heard echoing through the Alps as a mountain cry made by herders in suspenders, featured in Scandinavian folk music or morphed by Tarzan in his yodel-like call, chances are you’ve encountered ...