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Edb: Expand the comprehensive music catalogue with reviewed distinct performances; prioritize recent discovery, retain good older music and preserve existing prose, recordings and fields.

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	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
	Evie Mark, Kathy Tukkiapik and other community practitioners identified by Avataq provide useful named entry points into public paired performance. Elder and family teaching is just as central as a touring profile. Contemporary artists such as Tanya Tagaq make related vocal resources audible in a distinct solo experimental practice; hearing that difference prevents the internationally familiar form from replacing the traditional game in public understanding. Compare an interlocking pair with a contemporary solo recording and attend to the changed roles of breath, response, duration and audience rather than treating one as a more developed version of the other.		Evie Mark, Kathy Tukkiapik and other community practitioners identified by Avataq provide useful named entry points into public paired performance. Elder and family teaching is just as central as a touring profile. Contemporary artists such as Tanya Tagaq make related vocal resources audible in a distinct solo experimental practice; hearing that difference prevents the internationally familiar form from replacing the traditional game in public understanding. Compare an interlocking pair with a contemporary solo recording and attend to the changed roles of breath, response, duration and audience rather than treating one as a more developed version of the other.

			== Representative performances ==
			These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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			! Artist !! Performance / song / title !! Embedded player URL !! Notes
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			\| Karin and Kathy Kettler (Nukariik) \|\| Inuit Throat-Singing Demonstration — First Americans Festival, 2004 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/8IqOegVCNKI \|\| Smithsonian’s short performance and explanation credits the two sisters from northern Quebec. Their paired singing illustrates the interlocking vocal game, rather than replacing it with a contemporary solo throat-singing composition.<ref name="performance-katajjaniq-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqOegVCNKI Karin and Kathy Kettler (Nukariik) — Inuit Throat-Singing Demonstration — First Americans Festival, 2004]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18. Context: [https://folkways.si.edu/inuit-throat-singing-demonstration/american-indian/music/video/smithsonian supporting source].</ref>
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			\| Karen Flaherty and Kathleen Merritt \|\| The River (Kuurvaluk) and the beginning of The Wind (Anuri) \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/d_1DTkR7Zh8 \|\| Participating singer Merritt identifies both performers and the throat-singing pieces. This brief direct recording complements the Kettler sisters’ presentation; it contains the start of the second piece rather than a complete longer programme.<ref name="performance-katajjaniq-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_1DTkR7Zh8 Karen Flaherty and Kathleen Merritt — The River (Kuurvaluk) and the beginning of The Wind (Anuri)]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
	Other Inuit vocal games and drum-song traditions offer related but distinct community histories. [[Yup'ik drumsong]] belongs to another cultural and regional formation, while Tuvan or Mongolian throat-singing labels describe different techniques and social worlds. Contemporary experimental music may draw on Inuit vocal knowledge without making these categories interchangeable. Shared use of the human voice is not sufficient grounds for a universal throat-singing genre. <ref name="ga-katajjaniq">[https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?id=3&methode=consulter&type=imma Katajjaniq — Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec].</ref>		Other Inuit vocal games and drum-song traditions offer related but distinct community histories. [[Yup'ik drum song\|Yup'ik drumsong]] belongs to another cultural and regional formation, while Tuvan or Mongolian throat-singing labels describe different techniques and social worlds. Contemporary experimental music may draw on Inuit vocal knowledge without making these categories interchangeable. Shared use of the human voice is not sufficient grounds for a universal throat-singing genre. <ref name="ga-katajjaniq">[https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?id=3&methode=consulter&type=imma Katajjaniq — Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec].</ref>

	=== References and further reading ===		=== References and further reading ===

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== Summary ==
Katajjaniq names an Inuit vocal-game practice particularly associated with women and girls in Nunavik, with related practices and names in other Inuit communities. Performers commonly work in a pair, interlocking short rhythmic vocal patterns. Breath, voiced tone and other sounds create a compact conversation whose playful challenge is central. The catalogue places it among genres for discovery, but game, social practice and cultural knowledge are equally useful descriptions. It is not a regional version of every music called throat singing, nor should it be confused automatically with a contemporary solo artist's experimental adaptation.

== Contemporary and trending ==
The practice continues through community transmission, teaching, public presentation and performers who connect inherited knowledge with new settings. Heritage recognition and recordings can increase visibility, while learning still depends on people hearing and responding to one another. A staged presentation changes the audience relationship without making community practice disappear. Contemporary Inuit artists also use related vocal resources in new music; those works deserve recognition on their own terms rather than becoming the sole public definition of the paired game. Community musicians and cultural institutions remain central interpreters of what is being transmitted.

== History ==
Oral transmission among generations of Inuit women carries knowledge that cannot be reduced to a single written score or invention date. Practices vary across communities and have experienced pressures associated with colonial intervention and changing social life. Cultural recognition in Québec in 2014 brought particular public attention to Nunavik katajjaniq, following work involving the Avataq Cultural Institute and practitioners. That administrative event recognized a longstanding practice rather than creating it. The community account describes its presence across Nunavik communities, which supports a regional rather than city-centered understanding. <ref name="avataq-katajjaniq">[https://www.avataq.qc.ca/fr/Actualites/Le-katajjaniq-la-pratique-du-chant-de-gorge-inuit-est-designe-a-titre-de-premier-element-du-patrimoine-immateriel-quebecois Avataq Cultural Institute — Katajjaniq heritage recognition].</ref>

== Musical characteristics ==
Listen for how one voice fits into the spaces or changing articulations of the other. A repeated pattern can combine inhaled and exhaled sound, voiced and breathier elements, and shifts in resonance. The physical coordination creates a texture that may seem larger than two performers. A game can end when someone loses the pattern, runs out of breath or laughs, making sociability audible rather than incidental. Some patterns evoke environmental sounds or other references, but the practice is not exhausted by imitation. Timing and mutual attention are central musical skills. <ref name="katajjaq-study">[https://www.usherbrooke.ca/actualites/nouvelles/details/34210 Université de Sherbrooke — Le Katajjaq, un bref regard anthropologique et musical].</ref>

== Geography and communities ==
Nunavik's communities form a connected cultural landscape despite the large distances among settlements. A broad northern Québec field includes those relationships instead of placing tiny cones around the few towns represented in outside archives. A lighter eastern Nunavut connection acknowledges related practices while leaving community terminology and variation visible in the prose. Southern urban and stage presentation is another layer, not a reason to move the heartland to a concert venue. The fields illustrate cultural connections rather than asserting boundaries for Inuit identity or assigning one vocal practice to all Arctic peoples.

== Artists ==
Evie Mark, Kathy Tukkiapik and other community practitioners identified by Avataq provide useful named entry points into public paired performance. Elder and family teaching is just as central as a touring profile. Contemporary artists such as Tanya Tagaq make related vocal resources audible in a distinct solo experimental practice; hearing that difference prevents the internationally familiar form from replacing the traditional game in public understanding. Compare an interlocking pair with a contemporary solo recording and attend to the changed roles of breath, response, duration and audience rather than treating one as a more developed version of the other.

== Related genres ==
Other Inuit vocal games and drum-song traditions offer related but distinct community histories. [[Yup'ik drumsong]] belongs to another cultural and regional formation, while Tuvan or Mongolian throat-singing labels describe different techniques and social worlds. Contemporary experimental music may draw on Inuit vocal knowledge without making these categories interchangeable. Shared use of the human voice is not sufficient grounds for a universal throat-singing genre. <ref name="ga-katajjaniq">[https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?id=3&methode=consulter&type=imma Katajjaniq — Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec].</ref>

=== References and further reading ===
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== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Nunavik communities share a regional vocal-game world across large distances; archive-town dots understate that continuity. A broad Nunavik field and lighter eastern Nunavut connection preserve the central cultural landscape while leaving different local practices and contemporary southern-stage adaptation distinct.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

|-
| katajjaniq-nunavik || Nunavik katajjaniq community landscapes || 60 || -72 || 1100 || 1 || Regional community transmission extends beyond the settlements most visible in external archives.

|-
| katajjaniq-eastern-nunavut || Eastern Nunavut related Inuit vocal-game connections || 65 || -72 || 850 || 0.55 || A related neighboring cultural landscape, with local terminology and variation retained in the article.

|}