Why Sami Sing Knowing Through Melodies in Northern Norway

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.
*Honourable Mention - International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance Book Prize 2024*

Info autore

Stéphane Aubinet is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Riassunto

Why Sámi Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sámi people, living in the northernmost part of Europe.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stéphane Aubinet, Stephane Aubinet
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 26.08.2024
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9781032356198
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235619-8
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Serie: Arctic Worlds
• Categorie: MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology, Indigenous Epistemologies, ethnomusicology research, non-human agency, environmental perception, qualitative anthropology, Indigenous musical knowledge systems, vocal traditions