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Heard

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Katajjaq

practice · prehistoric–

Also called Inuit throat singing, katajjaniq

Inuit vocal game-song of Nunavik: two women, face to face, shared motifs, breath as rhythm, until one laughs. This is an Arctic seed. Empty extra Received is historically checked. It is not Tuvan khöömei (a different overtone job), not Kivalliq qiarvaaq (a different named style), and not a leftover “circumpolar” bin. Other Inuit and Yup’ik song types leftover as kin not yet filed. It gives Worldbeat featured katajjaq timbre on the festival circuit. Concert katajjaq leftover as this school still living, not a child.

Listen

  1. Katajjaq (game-song) Inuit tradition (traditional) YouTube
  2. Katajjaq pair (Nunavik) Nunavik singers (traditional)

Passed on

Worldbeat genre · 1980–2000

Festival and fusion records take katajjaq’s two-person breath-game timbre as a featured guest sound inside verse–chorus or experimental-fusion production.

Influence

Katajjaq → Worldbeat

timbre and productionperformance practicestrength: mediumwell documented1990–2000recordingpatronage

Mechanism

Festival and fusion records take katajjaq’s two-person breath-game timbre as a featured guest sound inside verse–chorus or experimental-fusion production. Strength medium for the records that use it as the brand; not definitional of worldbeat as a whole. Concert katajjaq of the same school is not a child; this edge is the hop into the hybrid product.

Evidence

Tanya Tagaq and Nunavik singers on festival/label bills from the 1990s; Grove on Inuit throat-game’s late-twentieth-century stage afterlife; Taylor on guest virtuosi.

Debate

Whether this is still katajjaq or already worldbeat. The edge applies when the breath-game voice is hosted inside a cosmopolitan festival/album frame, not when two singers play the game on its own terms.

Mediators

artist: Tanya Tagaq; institution: WOMAD / world-music festival circuit