Karoliina Kantelinen is a singer and an ethnomusicologist from Helsinki who specializes in different ethnic singing styles. Her doctoral dissertation is on the old yoik tradition from Russian Karelia, formerly a Finnish territory. She currently teaches folk music at the department of musicology in the University of Helsinki. Known for challenging the old established ideas and concepts of interpreting Viena Karelian yoiks, she uses the traditional Kalevala style as her in
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