‘No whale, no music’: Iñupiaq drumming and global warming
ABSTRACT This article explores how climate change has recently influenced the Iñupiaq cultural identity as the people of the whales. Their traditional whaling cycle reveals strong indivisibility of music, emotions, and place based human identity. To illustrate such integrity of the Iñupiat and their...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247408008164 2024-10-06T13:47:29+00:00 ‘No whale, no music’: Iñupiaq drumming and global warming Sakakibara, Chie 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247408008164 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247408008164 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 45, issue 4, page 289-303 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 journal-article 2009 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247408008164 2024-09-11T04:04:39Z ABSTRACT This article explores how climate change has recently influenced the Iñupiaq cultural identity as the people of the whales. Their traditional whaling cycle reveals strong indivisibility of music, emotions, and place based human identity. To illustrate such integrity of the Iñupiat and their culturally critical bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ), a search was made for specific ways in which climate change influences Iñupiaq spiritual and physical ties with the whale in relation to traditional music making. Traditionally, the Iñupiat say that it is the whale who brings them music, thus no whale harvest means no music production. However, when the environment is less predictable, the homeland eroded, place based songs gone, and human-whale integrity threatened, how specifically are these changes manifested in the Iñupiat-whale relationship? Providing detailed descriptions of 2005–2006 nalukataq (midsummer whale feasts), this article examines how contemporary Iñupiat respond to environmental changes in the emotional and cultural dimensions through their music making. Article in Journal/Newspaper Balaena mysticetus bowhead whale Polar Record Cambridge University Press Polar Record 45 4 289 303 |
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ABSTRACT This article explores how climate change has recently influenced the Iñupiaq cultural identity as the people of the whales. Their traditional whaling cycle reveals strong indivisibility of music, emotions, and place based human identity. To illustrate such integrity of the Iñupiat and their culturally critical bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ), a search was made for specific ways in which climate change influences Iñupiaq spiritual and physical ties with the whale in relation to traditional music making. Traditionally, the Iñupiat say that it is the whale who brings them music, thus no whale harvest means no music production. However, when the environment is less predictable, the homeland eroded, place based songs gone, and human-whale integrity threatened, how specifically are these changes manifested in the Iñupiat-whale relationship? Providing detailed descriptions of 2005–2006 nalukataq (midsummer whale feasts), this article examines how contemporary Iñupiat respond to environmental changes in the emotional and cultural dimensions through their music making. |
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