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Heard

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre heard.

Saami joik

tradition · prehistoric–

Also called joik, luohti, yoik

Saami vocal practice (joik / luohti / vuolle): one is a person, animal, or place rather than singing about them. This is a true Arctic-European seed. Empty extra Received is historically checked. It is not Katajjaq (a two-person breath game), not Tuvan khöömei, and not a leftover “circumpolar” or “Europe” bin. It gives Worldbeat featured joik timbre on the festival circuit. Sámi popular song leftover as later life of this school, not a child.

Listen

  1. Luohti (person-joik) North Saami tradition (traditional)
  2. Joik of a place Saami tradition (traditional)

Passed on

Worldbeat genre · 1980–2000

Post-mission revival joik becomes a featured worldbeat timbre: personal vocable contour hosted inside verse–chorus or fusion production on the same festival and label circuit as o…

Influence

Saami joik → Worldbeat

timbre and productionperformance practicemelodystrength: mediumwell documented1989–2000recordingpatronage

Mechanism

Post-mission revival joik becomes a featured worldbeat timbre: personal vocable contour hosted inside verse–chorus or fusion production on the same festival and label circuit as other worldbeat meetings. Strength medium for the records that use it as the brand; not definitional of worldbeat as a whole. Sámi popular song of the same school is not a child; this edge is the hop into the hybrid product.

Evidence

Mari Boine and kin on WOMAD/Real World-type bills (Gula Gula, 1989); Grove on joik’s late-twentieth-century stage afterlife; Taylor on guest virtuosi.

Debate

Whether this is still joik or already worldbeat. The edge applies when the joik voice is hosted inside a cosmopolitan festival/album frame, not when a Sámi singer joiks a person or place on its own terms.

Mediators

artist: Mari Boine; institution: WOMAD / world-music festival circuit