MUSIC 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wreck Of The Old 97, Baffin Island, Inuit Throat Singing
7 Jan 2020
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Inuit women demonstrating katajjaq in baffin island, canada. "my beautiful hangai land," a mongolian long song. "wreck of the old 97," a traditional american folk song. First we must recognize the difficulty of providing a definition for music that can be sustained across cultures and time periods. Music is organized sound that is meaningful to people within a specific time and place . Music is the purposeful organization of the quality, intensity, pitch, and duration of sound . Performers: 2 inuit women, baffin island, canada. Inuit considers this as a vocal game, which is called a katajjaq. Katajjaq is generally done in a playful manner by 2 inuit women who stand or sit face to fact, sometimes holding each other"s shoulders, competing to see who can keep singing lover. Eventually, one woman runs out of breath and both begin to laugh. The singing styles resembles the fast inhalation and exhalation of breath. The playful manner in which the game performed.
