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Traditional Inuit music (sometimes Eskimo music, Inuit-Yupik music, Yupik music or Iñupiat music), the music of the Inuit, Yupik, and Iñupiat, has been based on drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq [1] (Inuit throat singing) has become of interest in Canada and abroad.
Drum dance in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada, 2019. The drum dance and throat singing are two traditional forms of Inuit music. [7] Inuit drum dance songs, or pisiq, [7] are typically based on a five-note scale. [8] They usually have a strophic form. [9] The drum played during the Inuit drum dance is called a qilaut. [7]
Inuit folk music has long been based primarily off percussion, used in dance music, as well as vocals, including the famous Inuit throat singing tradition. Early European immigration brought new styles and instruments to Nunavut, including country music, bluegrass, square dancing, the button accordion and the fiddle.
Drum dances are an important element of Greenlandic Inuit cultural cohesion, and function as personal expression, pure entertainment and social sanction. [6] Many drum dances are competitive in nature, featuring two song cousins who humorously sing and dance, while pointing out the flaws in the other. This is generally a light-hearted ...
The healing power of community is shown in scenes — hunting and distributing of community food, traditional songs sung in Inuktitut, drum-dancing — that blend reality and fiction.
Artcirq members blend techniques of modern circus arts such as acrobatics, juggling, and clowning with traditional Inuit cultural practices including Inuit traditional games, throat singing, and drum dancing to create meaningful and original work through performing arts, music, and video.
Pamyua's music is self-described as "tribal funk", "world music" and "Inuit soul music", drawing inspiration from Russian Orthodox chants, traditional Inuit music, R&B and most notably South African male choral group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. [3] An early influence was the African American gospel played in their father's church in Wasilla ...
Drum dancing, Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada, 2019 Drummers at a dance near Nome in 1900. The qilaut (Inuit: "that by means of which the spirits are called up", [1] syllabic: ᕿᓚᐅᑦ [2]) or qilaat (Greenlandic) is a type of frame drum native to the Inuit cultures of the Arctic. The drum is distinctive in that it has a handle and is made of ...