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The Secretive Text: Yoik Lyrics as Literature and Tradition
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 1999 Harald Gaski
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, 2022 American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 880-884, December 2022.
Fiona Magowan
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Recording Orality: Vocalization as Ephemerality, Materialization and Meaning
MatLit, 2018 In my paper, I aim at exploring specific materializations of ephemerality and meaning through the recording of vocal expression. A case study is supplied by joik and joiking, a traditional form of singing by the Sami people of northern Scandinavia and ...
Anna Nacher
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Cross-cultural music cognition: cognitive methodology applied to North Sami yoiks [PDF]
Cognition, 2000 This article is a study of melodic expectancy in North Sami yoiks, a style of music quite distinct from Western tonal music. Three different approaches were taken. The first approach was a statistical style analysis of tones in a representative corpus of 18 yoiks.
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The problem of universals in cross-cultural studies: Insights from Sámi animal melodies (yoik) [PDF]
Psychology of Music, 2021 This article offers a critique of the notion of “universals” in cross-cultural studies on music and emotions based on empirical observations and philosophical arguments. The empirical material comes from experiments with songs evoking animals and belonging to the Indigenous Sámi “yoik” tradition.
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Song, Poetry and Images in Writing: Sami Literature
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2011 The article is an overview of Sami literature, past and present, with a specific emphasis on the connection between tradition and innovation, in which literature is regarded in a broader sense than only limited to the written word.
Harald Gaski
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Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning / Swedish Journal of Music Research, 2010 The article discusses the cultural turn that happened in the 1970s and its effect on a slowly developing Sami popular music scene. The major aims of the article are to given empirically grounded overview of, as well as a theoretical discussion of the causes for the musical stylistical changes thas has taken part since the early 1970s.
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“A very strong stream it is”: An Interpretation of Yoiks about the Gievdneguoika Waterfall
Studia Scandinavica, 2023 This article is devoted to yoik, the traditional vocal music of the Sámi people. It explains what yoiks are and what meaning they have in Sámi culture as an expression of remembrance and emotions. The study analyses the lyrics of three yoiks about a waterfall on the Kautokeino river called Gievdneguoika, and examines how they express emotions.
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The Yoiking of the Sami Peoples
Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 1998 No abstract available.
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