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.
Aubinet, Stéphane
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Bodies in Transition: Somatechnics and the Experimental Art of Liselotte Wajstedt'sSámi Nieida Jojk(Sámi Daughter Yoik, 2007) [PDF]
Somatechnics, 2018 Swedish-Sámi filmmaker and artist Liselotte Wajstedt and her experimental road movie documentary Sámi Nieida Jojk (Sámi Daughter Yoik, 2007) provides a unique insight into displaced Indigenous identity. To explore her mother's repressed Sámi ancestry, Wajstedt uses an eclectic mix of techniques, including animation, collage illustrations, photographs ...
Moffat, Kate, Kate Moffat
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The Role of Place- Names in Olof Sirma’s two Yoik Texts and their Translations [PDF]
Journal of Northern Studies, 2018 This article discusses the place-names in two old Sami yoik songs. These songs, provided by Olof Sirma, a Sami student, were published in Sami and Latin in Schefferus’ book Lapponia in 1673. They became known as the winter song and the summer song. The winter song is a kind of travel account in which a lover tells about his journey by reindeer sledge ...
Zorgdrager, Nellejet
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“A very strong stream it is”: An Interpretation of Yoiks about the Gievdneguoika Waterfall [PDF]
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.
Basa, Violeta
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"I sound" - yoik as embodied health knowledge [PDF]
, 2023 The earliest descriptions of yoik and Sami culture depict it as something the Sami would integrate into all their living: in daily life, mundane activities as well as spiritual, ritual, and ceremonial practices. Yoik was seen as something necessary for health, well-being, happiness, and success. In short, yoik was an existential necessity.
Hämäläinen, Soile Päivikki
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A song of identity: Yoik as example of the importance of symbolic cultural expression in intercultural communication/health care [PDF]
Journal of Intercultural Communication, 2011 Yoik is the old Sami form of music/singing produced according to old conventions and used in various communication contexts. A yoik referring to a particular person, a so-called person-yoik, constitutes a musical expression of that person and may be a more powerful symbol of identity and connectedness than a person’s name and may awaken memories ...
Hanssen, Ingrid
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Sámi Yoik and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat: An Ethnographic Study of Music as a Medium for Activism [PDF]
, 2023 Sámi yoik and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat are the subjects of this thesis, which examines music as a form of activism through an ethnographic lens. The study's primary focus is an anthropological examination of Sámi music performances and oral histories. The Sámi are an indigenous people that live in northern Fennoscandia, which includes Norway, Finland ...
Aluola, Philip
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Complex Yoiks – A Time Traveller : Aboriginal Oral Traditions Among the Sámi in Sweden
, 2021 Section VI: Art & Culture in ...
Stoor, Krister
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Poetry Concert of the Yoik [PDF]
Senri Ethnological Studies, 2004 departmental bulletin ...
Valkeapaa, Nils-Aslak
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The Secretive Text: Yoik Lyrics as Literature and Tradition
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 1999 The most obvious example of the need for a culturally internal interpretation technique in relation to Sami texts must be yoik poetry. (…)
Harald Gaski
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