Ankur Desai

Fast forward to now and Gen Z feminists are taking on that tradition, forming choirs across Switzerland and yodelling their own way.

Anna Kölberner is 26 and part of the Jütz Youth Choir.

She told Stephanie Prentice how and why she yodels in the modern way.

It's a special technique of singing.

It's not like classical or pop singing.

You sing a bit different.

So you have like your breast voice that sounds like... And you have like your head voice that is like a bit higher.

And if you switch between these two voices, you get this really, really fine crack.

You get like... And that's the thing that we call yodeling.

So Anna, you're part of a youth choir with lots of women in it.

Why is yodelling so important to you, both as a performer but also as a feminist?

So there are some regions where there are more and more female voices who yodel.

But here in the east of Switzerland, until today, it's more a man tradition.

But yodelling is just like a natural singing that really comes directly from the heart.

And it can connect so many people together because you can sing together if you don't really know what you're singing and you don't have to read notes.

You can like go with your ear and hear what the others do and you can just connect.

So I think yodeling is a really good thing to bring people together.

I think it should be living from all the people who live here and not only old men or whatever.

Can you tell me a bit about how you changed the lyrics to make it more modern and to make it more applicable for women?

Yeah, so sometimes they're a bit, you can see them critical, the lyrics.