Acculturation in the Eskimo Songs of the Greenlanders

• Published in: Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council
• Main Author: Olsen, Poul Rovsing
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1972
• Subjects: General Engineering; Arctic; Arctic Island; Greenland; East Greenland; eskimo*; greenlander*; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/767670; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0316608200001206

The traditional Eskimo music of Greenland has long since disappeared on the greater part of the west coast, but it still survives — though in an agonizing state — in East Greenland and North Greenland. These last named places of the Arctic island have been difficult of access and have consequently been submitted to a colonial or quasi-colonial status only at a late date.