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Soon men and women dressed in tripe and traditional costumes line up again with their hands in the pockets of their trousers and jackets. Promote their songs, seamlessly transition between chest and head voice, low and high and create a very unique sound – yodel rhythm. The Federal Yodelling Festival in Zug is approaching. 11,000 people last demonstrated their skills at Brig-Glis VS six years ago, and around 150,000 followed suit. It’s a big party.
Yodeling is popular. The Federal Yodelling Association alone has 20,000 members – for years. And their singing songs are no longer heard only by old men who have Rössli in their teeth. Songs are part of popular culture. In 2008, Oesch’s die Third took first place with “Ku-Ku-Jodel” on the SRF program “The Biggest Swiss Hits”. Zurich rapper Bligg (46) placed yodel passages in his song “Musigg i dä Schwiiz”. And Bernese rocker Gölä (55) re-recorded his polish beats with yodel choirs.
Austrians again!
Yodeling is part of Switzerland’s DNA – of course, isn’t it? Wrong, says Dieter Ringli. He teaches music history at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) and explains: “Yodel is not a Swiss invention.” It only spread to us in the 20th century. It came before us: the Tyrols. Austrians of all people! Eternal rivals.
The book “Tirolerei in der Schweiz” shows: During the wars of liberation (1796-1814) against Napoleon (1769-1821), the Tyrols used it as an acoustic symbol for resistance. Later, local singer groups took him first to Vienna, to the Volksbühne stage and then to the world. Also in Switzerland. And it looked threatening. In the 19th century, people in this country complained of “Tyrolei”, which was becoming increasingly common. In individual highlands there were individual forms of singing with varying registers, today: “Entlebucher Jutz”, “Berner Naturjutz”, “Juiz” in Obwalden and Nidwalden, “Zäuerli” and “Ruggusserli” in Appenzell, and “Johlen” in Toggenburg ” . But nothing has a nationwide reputation.
An initiative in 1910 changed that: the founding of the Federal Yodelling Association. He pressed the song. It proclaimed “an original Swiss trait” and has since been popularized and marketed. The official founding invitation that “Weekend Switzerland” once spawned says: “True, original singers from mountain and valley should stick together and stay away from variety songs in all respects”, that is, “Tyrolean tubercle”.
spiritual national defense
The excerpt shows: The yelling association, yodel – these are an expression of Switzerland’s national identity. Just like the first federal singing festival in Basel in 1924. Added to this was moral national defense during the Second World War. The EJV went on the offensive and in 1943 published composer Robert Fellmann’s (1885–1951) first instructions for singing. From then on, it mainly formed the basis of clubs in Mittelland. The trend collapsed in the postwar period, and the ’68 generation and those who followed them found singing regressive.
Those days are over. “Yodel is experiencing a resurgence,” says music expert Ringli. Society in general discovered it. In Kiental, stressed people can escape everyday life by singing Qigong and singing “as one of the purest expressions of joy in life.” And as Ringli says, yodel courses in the city are always full. The townspeople were particularly interested in Naturjutz – shouting without text. A sign for the future, he thinks: “Yodel will likely stay with us.”
Source : Blick
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