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Inuit people from Alaska to Greenland traditionally participated in the composition of drum-dance songs. These songs are also referred to as “ayayas,” the vocable (word syllable without dictionary definition) that serves as a refrain in drum-dance songs across the North American Arctic region. The eastern Arctic drum-dancing tradition involves a male solo drum dancer who moves from side to side as he strikes the rim of a large frame drum as a female chorus sings the song(s) he has composed. This research is based on a study of drum-dance songs collected from the northern Baffin Island communities of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) and Igloolik in 1976 and 1977 and Ikpiarjuk (Arctic Bay) in 1964 and 1985 (Conlon 1992).
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REFERENCES
Hauser, Michael. 1992. Traditional Greenlandic Music. Copenhagen: Kragen/Ulo.
Rasmussen, Knud. 1929. “Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos” in Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921-24 Volume VII (1). Copenhagen: Gyldendal-Nordisk.
RECORDINGS
Songs of the Iglulik Inuit: Canada. 2004. Witness World PG 1107. Barcelona, Spain: Blue Moon Producciones Discograficas DL B-47952/04.