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Why Sámi Sing: Knowing Through Melodies in Northern Norway

Why Sámi Sing: Knowing Through Melodies in Northern Norway

Aubinet, Stéphane

Hardcover

Series: Arctic Worlds

AnthropologyIndigenous StudiesWorld Music

ISBN10: 103232869X
ISBN13: 9781032328690
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Why Sámi Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sámi people, living in the northernmost part of Europe. It inquires how the performance of melodies, with or without lyrics, may be a way of altering perception, relating to human and non-human presences, or engaging with the past. According to its practitioners, the Sámi yoik is more than a musical repertoire made up by humans: it is a vocal power received from the environment, one that reveals its possibilities with parsimony through practice and experience. Following the propensity of Sámi singers to take melodies seriously and experiment with them, this book establishes a conversation between Indigenous and Western epistemologies and introduces the yoik as a way of knowing in its own right, with both convergences and divergences vis-à-vis academic ways of knowing. It will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and Indigenous studies.

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