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Traditional music is an umbrella term used in the mid–20th century by folklorists and ethnomusicologists to denote community-rooted, orally transmitted repertoires tied to social ritual, work, celebration, and storytelling.

Sámi music is the musical expression of the Indigenous Sámi people of Sápmi (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia’s Kola Peninsula). At its heart is the joik (North Sámi: luohti; South Sámi: vuelie; Skolt Sámi: leu’dd; Inari Sámi: livđe) — a vocally driven tradition in which a person…