Recording Orality: Vocalization as Ephemerality, Materialization and Meaning

• Published in: Matlit Revista do Programa de Doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura
• Main Author: Anna Nacher
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra 2018
• Subjects: sound studies; genealogies of e-literature; new materialism; ephemerality; yoik; Language and Literature; P; Literature (General); PN1-6790; Kola Peninsula; Nils; kola peninsula; sami
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-2_6; https://doaj.org/article/5c5e867e868040b2a3efb4f8354cf4ae

In my paper, I aim at exploring specific materializations of ephemerality and meaning through the recording of vocal expression. A case study is supplied by joik and joiking, a traditional form of singing by the Sami people of northern Scandinavia and Kola Peninsula. Believed to be one of the oldest...