Sami Music: Symposium & Concert

Sonic Politics in the European North
11 and 12 November 2016

Symposium on Sami music, featuring international invited speakers
Workshop on traditional improvisation-based Yoik singing
Concert with "Stuoris & Balddonas" – traditional Yoik today

Programm

Friday, 11 November 2016
10.00 – 10.30 am: Opening

Christian Meyer, Vice Rector of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Ursula Hemetek, Head of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology

10.30 – 11.30 am: Karl Tirén's Joik Collection
Dan Lundberg

12.00 – 1.00 pm: Virgin Mary and Sáráhkká
Songs of the relationship between the Sámi people and the Church of Sweden
Krister Stoor

2.00 – 3.00 pm: The Ban on Sámi Yoik in the Sámi Community of Kautokeino
Ola Graff

3.30 – 5.00 pm: Yoik-Workshop
Krister Stoor

7.00 pm: Concert "To Yoik is to Live"
Stuoris & Balddonas

Saturday, 12 November 2016
10.00 – 11.00 am: Cosmology and Decolonizing Politics in Sámi Music
Tina K. Ramnarine

11.30 am – 12.30 pm: Queering Sápmi and Indigenishing Queer Theory
Intersections of Sámi Musical performance and LGBTQ Politics Thomas Hilder

12.30 – 1.30 pm: Comment by Ana Hofman and Closing Discussion

Weitere Informationen

Sami sind eine indigene Bevölkerungsgruppe in Schweden, Norwegen und Finnland, deren Geschichte von Diskriminierung gezeichnet ist, die aber heute immer mehr die politischen Diskurse und die musikalische Repräsentanz der nordischen Länder mitbestimmen.