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  • Check out the website for details and specific activities, but Bwog promises "joik" and throatsinging!

    The Bwog 2009

  • ‘Oh, yuh joik!’ he kept repeating during the second inning at close to a hundred and twenty decibels.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • ‘Oh, yuh joik!’ he kept repeating during the second inning at close to a hundred and twenty decibels.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • ‘Oh, yuh joik!’ he kept repeating during the second inning at close to a hundred and twenty decibels.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • ‘Oh, yuh joik!’ he kept repeating during the second inning at close to a hundred and twenty decibels.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

  • Wimme, a member of the nomadic Sami or Lapp people, has made an art form of their joik singing style.

    The Sounds of Finnish Musical Experiments 2008

  • Wimme has revolutionized the style by blending the joik with electronic soundscapes, making it accessible to a much wider audience.

    The Sounds of Finnish Musical Experiments 2008

  • This song also features Sámi joik-style vocals, which are the bit that sound a little like Native American chanting.

    all in the name (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • "Dat laffin mean you fine'ly managed to joik each other off?"

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • Wimme, a member of the nomadic Sami, or Lapp, people, has made an art form of their joik singing style.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • His music draws on joik, an ancient vocal tradition that was outlawed when Nordic Indigenous communities were Christianized (like what Canada did with the Potlatch ban).

    Disney signed a contract with Indigenous people before making Frozen II Radheyan Simonpillai 2020

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