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SAMI MUSICAL PERFORMANCE POL ICB
Thomas R. Hilder
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Hardcover. In Sami Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hilder offers the first book-length study of this diverse and dynamic music scene and its intersection with the politics of indigeneity. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DN; AVA; AVGH; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
The Sámi are Europe’s only recognized indigenous people living across regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola peninsula. The subjects of a history of Christianization, land dispossession, and cultural assimilation, the Sámi have through their self-organization since World War II worked towards Sámi political self-determination across the Nordic states and helped forge a global indigenous community. Accompanying this process was the emergence of a Sámi music scene, in which the revival of the distinct and formerly suppressed unaccompanied vocal tradition of joik was central. Through joiking with instrumental accompaniment, incorporating joik into forms of popular music, performing on ... Read more
The Sámi are Europe’s only recognized indigenous people living across regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola peninsula. The subjects of a history of Christianization, land dispossession, and cultural assimilation, the Sámi have through their self-organization since World War II worked towards Sámi political self-determination across the Nordic states and helped forge a global indigenous community. Accompanying this process was the emergence of a Sámi music scene, in which the revival of the distinct and formerly suppressed unaccompanied vocal tradition of joik was central. Through joiking with instrumental accompaniment, incorporating joik into forms of popular music, performing on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Condition
New
Series
Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810888951
SKU
V9780810888951
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About Thomas R. Hilder
Thomas Hilder is an ethnomusicologist with a focus on music of the Nordic countries and a special interest in the politics of transnationalism, postcolonialism, and gender. His research on the Sámi has been published in Ethnomusicology Forum, and he is lead editor of the forthcoming book Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media. He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center ... Read more
Reviews for SAMI MUSICAL PERFORMANCE POL ICB
Thomas R. Hidler provides a critical analysis of the political, cultural, and social transformations in the non-Western, Nordic, Sámi indigenous community. . . .This book is well-written and organized cohesively, as one chapter leads seamlessly into another. It will be a valuable addition to the fields of European studies, ethnomusicology, and identity studies.
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