Recording orality : vocalization as ephemerality, materialization and meaning

• Main Author: Nacher, Anna
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: sound studies; ephemerality; genealogies of e-literature; yoik; new materialism; Kola Peninsula; Nils; kola peninsula; sami
• Online Access: https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/62249; http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/5277/4805

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...