Why Sámi Sing

Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway

Stéphane Aubinet

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Routledge
26 August 2024

Theory of music & musicology

Series: Arctic Worlds

"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."

By: Stéphane Aubinet
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781032356198
ISBN 10: 1032356197
Series: Arctic Worlds
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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