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The Craft of Yoiking: Philosophical Variations on Sámi Chants
The yoik is a vocal technique practised by the Sámi of Northern Europe. It relies on circular melodies, chanted in everyday life and a cappella, with or without lyrics. Each melody evokes a particular being, usually a person, an animal species, or a place.
Aubinet, Stéphane
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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
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]
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.
C L, Krumhansl +5 more
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Song, Poetry and Images in Writing: Sami Literature
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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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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The Yoiking of the Sami Peoples
No abstract available.
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Yoik tales : a study of the narrative characteristics of Sami yoik
The focus of the dissertation is on the performance of the yoiks, what the yoikers tell the audience and what the yoikers mean with their narratives. The results demonstrate that the verbal art of yoik includes both song and spoken messages. The analysis
Stoor, Krister
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«L’uomo che ha insegnato all’Europa a yoikare, Mattis Hætta, ci ha lasciati». Con questa frase, la mattina del 10 novembre 2022, si apre la prima pagina del giornale nazionale norvegese NRK.
Nicola Renzi
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