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Inuit Throat-Singing

Inuit Throat-Singing. CB. Introduction of the Inuit . The Inuit live in the most northerly parts of North America, from Alaska all the way to Greenland. Some are also found in the Chukotsk Peninsula in northeast Siberia.

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Inuit Throat-Singing

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  1. Inuit Throat-Singing CB

  2. Introduction of the Inuit • The Inuit live in the most northerly parts of North America, from Alaska all the way to Greenland. Some are also found in the Chukotsk Peninsula in northeast Siberia. • They have developed their own distinctive way of life and their own culture, living almost exclusively by fishing and hunting. • Today, no one follows the traditional life of living in igloos; and much of Inuit traditions can only be found in museums.

  3. History of Inuit Throat-singing Originally, katajjaq was a form of entertainment among Inuit women while men were away on hunting trips, and it was a regarded more as a type of vocal or breathing game in the Inuit culture rather than a form of music. In the vast Inuit Artic land they found two types of singing: 2.Throat-singing, generally done by two women facing each other (and nowadays by a few men, too). 1.Regular songs, generally accompanied by hand drums and dancing.

  4. ….how songs are made? Inuit throat-singing is done the following way: two women face each other; they may be standing or crouching down; one is leading, while the other responds; the leader produces a short rhythmic motif, that she repeats with a short silent gap in-between, while the other is rhythmically filling in the gaps. The game is such that both singers try to show their vocal abilities in competition, by exchanging these vocal motives. The first to run out of breath or be unable to maintain the pace of the other singer will start to laugh or simply stop and will thus loose the game. It generally last between one and three minutes. The winner is the singer who beats the largest number of people.

  5. My thinking of throat-singing. • Throat-singing is a symbol of Aboriginal people. It is an important cultural of these people. It showed that the cultural of Aboriginal people hasn’t disappeared and it has always been strong in everyone’s mind. I was really surprise at how people performed their songs, it was absolutely special that no cultural can change it. Throat-singing marked a important point in life of Aboriginal’s people. Throat-singing is strengthening everyone’s identity. Somehow, it's about identity, it's about who you are, where your environment is…

  6. Examples: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPh3GGykaI • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8QuNdfb-Yw

  7. Sources: • http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/music/inuit-throat-singing • http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/inuit.htm (throat singing)

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