Words from a Sami Singer from Lapland in Scandinavia: The yoik is - TopicsExpress



          

Words from a Sami Singer from Lapland in Scandinavia: The yoik is pentatonic, it can sound very monotonous, it doesn’t have a lot of words. It’s the way you sing just a few words that tells the story. We say that with a yoik, we don’t sing about a person, we sing the person. We go inside the feeling, we are the feeling when we sing, we don’t describe. That’s the difference between western and indigenous culture. Here is a Yoik. https://youtube/watch?v=NQqwiG-lLOI
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:07:30 +0000

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