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- past, the origins of joik are not do****ented. According to oral traditions, the fairies and elves of the arctic lands gave joiks to the Sámi People. Just...
- importance. Some of joiks are sung on shamanistic rites; this memory is conserved also in a folklore text (a shaman story). Recently, joiks have been sung...
- their own joik, sometimes given to them at birth, which is seen as personal to and representative of them, like a name. Purely folk joiks have declined...
- Norway, the Sami, are known primarily for highly spiritual songs called joik. classical The first Finnish opera was written by the German-born composer...
- (1673). Among Sirmas many contributions were the lyrics to two joiks. These two joiks, which were love poems, were translated to Latin in Lapponia, and...
- characteristics of joiks can be explained by comparing the music ideals, as observed in joiks and contrasted to music ideals of other cultures. Some joiks intend...
- wooden flutes and drums. Sweden has a significant folk-music scene. The joik, a type of Sami music, is a chant that is part of the traditional Sami animistic...
- 8 November 1956) is a Norwegian Sámi singer. She combined a form of Sámi joik singing with rock. In 2008, she became a professor of musicology at Nesna...
- Wulfstan's travel accounts used the Old English Sconeg. The earliest Sámi joik texts written down refer to the world as Skadesi-suolu in Northern Sámi and...
- Transjoik, originally named Frode Fjellheim Jazzjoik Ensemble (founded 1992 in Trondheim, Norway by Frode Fjellheim), is a Norwegian band that plays Sámi...