Stephanie Nilsson (Hendrick)
Stephanie is a drama/English/culture teacher at Umeå University and Östra Gymnasium. She has recently completed her master’s thesis on social networking and blogging and is eagerly looking forward to beginning a PhD dealing with discourse features common to blogging (keeping fingers crossed that topic is accepted :-). Stephanie is a native of the USA, but has moved around enough to now call Umeå home, as three years is the longest time she has lived in one place. She is passionate about blogging, examining patterns of social networking, or basically asking “why”. When Stephanie is not busy being mother to her incomparable three-year-old twins, she is blogging, working, or reading. Stephanie can be contacted via stephanie.hendrick@engelska.umu.se.
February 09, 2004
Livja
I was amazed at what this group has created in just a few days. These musicians have come from all over the world, collaborated and made *music*. Their music, I must say, is beautiful?
The performance started with the didgeridoo, played by our very own Jim. It gave a sacred aura to the beginning, and foreshadowed the music to come.
This concert included music from all over the world, but the music that Seth plays is the type I grew up listening to. Coming from the South, I have heard a lot of bluegrass and I feel somewhat qualified to say that he is wonderful. There are not too many singers that can really make you feel the blues. He has a great ability to express the heart of the song, or more importantly, the soul of music. Seth is indeed one of those few. Tonight, he played the fiddle, the banjo, and when he sang, he made you feel the music!
The level of professionalism was apparent as the musicians changed with the songs. They mixed and played off each other in a variety of genres and tempos, all with grace and seeming ease. I have to say it again, it was a wonderful concert! The blogging group and I have dubbed Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer?s song, Legend of the Solar Tambourine, our Jokkmokk theme song, as it was the song that we ended up singing the rest of our stay. It is off their Ancestors CD and proceeds of this CD go to Survival International, a group that supports the rights of indigenous tribal people in the Siberian Arctic.
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Finishing jokkmokk
I am going to briefly finish my trip to Jokkmokk and tell you about what I did the afternoon the network crashed. After having decided that we were missing stories that lay with the Jokkmokk inhabitants, I decided to go and search for native Jokkmokkians and listen to what they had to say.
The first video clip I took in a local arts and crafts store. The woman in the clip had lived in Jokkmokk since a small child and tells of how the market has changed throughout her lifetime. (This is in Swedish)?For those of you who do not speak Swedish, the women in the clip mentions that long ago the market contained mainly handcrafted goods, later it changed to very generic (dare I say it?) traditional junk. She said that the one thing that she has noticed in these last years is the return to the importance of handcrafted goods at the market.
The next clip is from an arts and crafts booth at V?stra Skolan. This clip is of Nina Sparr, an artist who makes things from human hair?everything from underwear to wedding crowns. In her video clip, she says that customers leave the hair with her (no shower drain searching), and she makes what they order. She also mentions that the age of the hair is not a factor. She sat and weaved the hair as we spoke, not missing a stroke in her circular pattern. The result from the hair weaving is a thick, strong rope with which she bends into different shapes.
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Moblogging the end…
I have quite a bit of information to share. Last night I, like my fellow bloggers, just needed to sleep. Blogging this festival has been an intense experience, and one that I want to share. Today we are all back at work, in one form or another, so the rest of my Jokkmokk blogging will have to wait until 1pm CET or so. Until then, I am happy at the response that this blog has generated. Everything that went right, but more importantly, everything that went wrong, was a learning experience. Until this afternoon?
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February 08, 2004
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February 07, 2004
after the concert
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