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committee of Paris-based UNESCO, meeting in New Delhi, on
Thursday listed yodeling in its list of intangible cultural
heritage.
Yodeling was selected among 67 traditions honored by UNESCO in
the Indian capital, including Italian cooking, Ghanaian highlife
music, the fermented Kyrgyz beverage Maksym and the El Joropo
music and dance tradition in Venezuela.
The list is different from the UNESCO World Heritage List, which
enshrines protections for physical sites that are considered
important to humanity, like the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
"Yodeling can be performed by individuals, small groups or
choirs, and sometimes with instruments like the accordion," said
UNESCO.
“It features rich harmonics and is often performed at concerts,
parties and competitions, with participants typically wearing
traditional regional costumes,” the assessment said.
Switzerland’s government pushed the candidacy with UNESCO, and
promoters insist it's far more than the mountain cries of
yesteryear by falsetto-bellowing male herders in suspenders on
green mountainsides: It's also a popular form of singing.
The government says at least 12,000 yodelers take part through
about 780 groups of the Swiss Yodeling Association.
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