Inuit Throat and Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music of Povungnituk

by Various Artists

Inuit Throat and Harp Songs: Eskimo Women's Music of Povungnituk cover art

'Inuit Throat and Harp Songs' documents women's vocal games and related musical traditions from Povungnituk. The release preserves intimate call-and-response performance practices in which rhythm, breath, and social play are inseparable from cultural transmission.

Genres

  • Inuit Vocal Games
  • Inuit Music

Tracklist

  1. Introduction
  2. Little Dog
  3. Sound Of Wind
  4. Song Of Northern Lights
  5. Song Of Sea Shore
  6. Throat Singing Contest
  7. Sound Of A River
  8. Sound Of A Goose
  9. Sound Of Cooking Seal Flipper
  10. Planing The Runners Of A Kamutik
  11. Story Of A Goose
  12. Mother Singing A Baby To Sleep On Her Back
  13. People From Different Places Singing
  14. Sound Of Panting Dogs
  15. Song Of Sea Weed
  16. Song Of A Name (For A Boy)
  17. Song Of A Little Girl
  18. Song About The World
  19. Song About A Thumb
  20. Song Of A Three Stringed Fiddle
  21. Are You Shivering?
  22. Look Where Somebody Slept
  23. My Hands Are Cold
  24. Song For A Little Baby
  25. She Thinks She Is The Only Daughter
  26. Contest Between Men / A Second Challenge, Song Of Wind
  27. Song Game Of A Blindfolded Person
  28. Song For A Baby