The Music in Greenland and Greenland in the music – Globalization and performance of place

 

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Contents:

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Abstract

Introduction

The politics of performing place

Qilaat – The Greenlandic frame drum

Kalattuut – Greenlandic polka

Greenlandic hymns and choirs

From vaigat to The Eskimos – The incipience of popular music in Greenland

Sume and the Greenlandification of popular music

Rasmus Lyberth – World music from Greenland

Inneruulat – Including landscapes in soundscapes

From anti-imperialism to existentialism

The Greenlandic Divas

New styles and new languages

Angu and the performance of ‘non-place’

Places as meeting points

Globalization and the music within Greenland

References