The Practice and Performance of Katajjaq: Culture, Identity and Resistance

• Main Author: Singh, Raj Shobha
• Other Authors: Johnson, Sherry
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Fine arts; Katajjaq; Inuit; Inuit throat singing; Throat singing; Indigenous; Indigenous Studies; Music; Ethnomusicology; Canada; Canadian studies; Boxing; Imaq; Sila; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/39609

Katajjaq, or vocal games, has a long history among the Inuit of Canada. Practiced almost exclusively by women, katajjaq is a playful competition between two or more partners who face each other and exchange sound motifs; one is leading, while the other repeats the same motifs. The first person unabl...