{"id":112,"date":"2009-06-30T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T12:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=112"},"modified":"2009-06-30T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T12:35:38","slug":"sami-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/sami-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional <strong>Sami <\/strong>music revolves around singing rather than instruments.\u00a0 In fact, you probably will not find any purely instrumental pieces in true <strong>Sami <\/strong>music.\u00a0 It is the voice that is the most important.\u00a0 Although the <strong>joik\u00a0<\/strong>(yoik)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>originally referred to several types of traditional<strong> Sami<\/strong> singing, today it refers to all types <strong>Sami<\/strong> singing.\u00a0 The sound of a\u00a0<strong>joik<\/strong> compares to traditional Native American chanting, with the emphasis on the voice, rather than instruments.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Joiks<\/strong> usually has either no lyrics or very few at all.\u00a0 They are meant to represent a person or a place, but not literally.\u00a0 Rather, the &#8221;yoiker&#8221; attempts to transfer the essence of the chosen person to the song.\u00a0 So the song is not <em>about <\/em>the person, but is supposed to reflect his-her essence, or the essence of a place.\u00a0 This concept is\u00a0difficult for me to understand, but is essential to understanding <strong>joiks<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned before, a <strong>joik <\/strong>is typically sung a cappella, but especially modern <strong>Sami joiks<\/strong> sometimes use a drum (<strong>en <\/strong>tromme) or other instrument, such as<strong> <\/strong>an accordion <strong>(et trekkspill<\/strong>) or fiddle (<strong>en fele<\/strong>)\u00a0<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 While the tonality of a joik\u00a0is at the disgression of the yoiker, usually it is pentatonic, which means that it uses a musical scale with five pitches per octave, rather than seven, which is what the heptatonic, or major scale, uses.\u00a0 <strong>Joiks <\/strong>do not rhyme and follow no sort of structure. The song is totally up to the yoiker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, with the influence of the radio, pop culture, and declining practice of\u00a0<strong>Sami <\/strong>traditional religion, <strong>joiking <\/strong>has declined dramatically.\u00a0 Nevertheless, there are still very famous yoikers that deserve to be mentioned.\u00a0 The most famous <strong>Sami <\/strong>yoiker is <strong>Mari Boine <\/strong>(Norway)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who sings a kind of folk-rock with <strong>Sami\u00a0joik<\/strong> roots.\u00a0 I heard her once in concert and she was absolutely fabulous.\u00a0 I felt like I was almost in my own little dream world.\u00a0 I must have been close to feeling the &#8221;essence&#8221; of\u00a0the person or place\u00a0she was\u00a0concentrating on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other well-known <strong>Sami <\/strong>artists include <strong>Wimme Sari <\/strong>and <strong>Nils Aslak-Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 <\/strong>(Finland-he performed at the opening ceremony of the 1994 olympics in <strong>Lillehammer, Norge<\/strong>).\u00a0 The Finnish folk-metal group, <strong>Shaman, <\/strong>incorporated <strong>Sami joiking <\/strong>into their music, producing the first heavy metal music with <strong>Sami <\/strong>characteristics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It might sound a little weird at first, but <strong>Sami <\/strong>music is very interesting and extremely relaxing.\u00a0 I guess you can kind of make of it what you want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Sami music revolves around singing rather than instruments.\u00a0 In fact, you probably will not find any purely instrumental pieces in true Sami music.\u00a0 It is the voice that is the most important.\u00a0 Although the joik\u00a0(yoik)\u00a0originally referred to several types of traditional Sami singing, today it refers to all types Sami singing.\u00a0 The sound of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/sami-music\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}