Why Smi Sing by Stphane Aubinet - 9781032356198

Why Smi SingKnowing through Melodies in Northern Norway\nAuthor(s): Stphane Aubinet\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032356198, 978-1032356198\nSynopsis\nWhy Smi Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Smi people, living in the northernmost part of Europe. It inquires how the performance of melodies, with or without lyrics, may be a way of altering perception, relating to human and non-human presences, or engaging with the past. According to its practitioners, the Smi \""yoik\"" is more than a musical repertoire made up by humans: it is a vocal power received from the environment, one that reveals its possibilities with parsimony through practice and experience. Following the propensity of Smi singers to take melodies seriously and experiment with them, this book establishes a conversation between Indigenous and Western epistemologies and introduces the \""yoik\"" as a w*