‘You can yodel and don’t have to be conservative’: Switzerland’s feminist choir rewriting traditional songs

Echo vom Eierstock is opening up the overwhelmingly male Alpine folk music scene with new versions of lyrics about nagging wives and naive girlsElena Kaiser just wanted to yodel, and living in central Switzerland, that didn’t seem too much to ask for. ...

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‘You can yodel and don’t have to be conservative’: Switzerland’s feminist choir rewriting traditional songs

Echo vom Eierstock is opening up the overwhelmingly male Alpine folk music scene with new versions of lyrics about nagging wives and naive girlsElena Kaiser just wanted to yodel, and living in central Switzerland, that didn’t seem too much to ask for. ...

Continue Reading‘You can yodel and don’t have to be conservative’: Switzerland’s feminist choir rewriting traditional songs