Mari Boine on the joik, and what it is for
An hour with Mari Boine on what a joik actually does, the shame the Sámi were taught about it, and the world it assumes.
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Interview · Nordic Animism · 2025Mari Boine on the joik, and what it is for
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Sámi Joik
Mari Boine
Sámi singer from Karasjok in northern Norway, born in 1956, and the best-known voice of the joik. A joik does not describe its subject but calls a person, animal, place or spirit into presence, and it grew out of a Sámi understanding of the world as kin rather than scenery. She sings it alongside jazz and rock without letting go of what it is.
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