
Why Sami Sing
Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway
Stephane Aubinet(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-032-35619-8 (ISBN)
Description
Why Sami Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sami 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 Sami "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 Sami 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-a-vis academic ways of knowing. It will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and Indigenous studies.
*Honourable Mention - International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance Book Prize 2024*
*Honourable Mention - International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance Book Prize 2024*
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Illustrations
6 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 6 s/w Abbildungen
6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-35619-8 (9781032356198)
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Person
Stephane Aubinet is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Content
Part I Introduction
1 Presence | Leahkit
Part II Knowing the Environment
2 Horizon | Luondu
3 Appetition | Geaidit
4 Enchantment | Gierran
5 Score | Luodda
Part III Knowing the Past
6 Echo | Skadja
7 Primordial | Eamifapmu
Part IV Conclusion
8 Recursivity | Gierdu
Appendix A List of place names
Appendix B List of interviews and yoik courses
1 Presence | Leahkit
Part II Knowing the Environment
2 Horizon | Luondu
3 Appetition | Geaidit
4 Enchantment | Gierran
5 Score | Luodda
Part III Knowing the Past
6 Echo | Skadja
7 Primordial | Eamifapmu
Part IV Conclusion
8 Recursivity | Gierdu
Appendix A List of place names
Appendix B List of interviews and yoik courses