Elina Hytönen-Ng
Senior Researcher
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Karelian Institute
elina.hytonen-ng@uef.fi | +358 50 572 7612
Hytönen-Ng is an ethnomusicologist and a cultural researcher, who specializes in the ethnographic study of people’s musical experiences. Her research topic include popular music research (especially jazz), peak experiences related to music, work environment of musicians, musicians’ mobility, sonic environment of reception center, soundscape studies, schools soundscape, the role of sound in shamanic rituals and the meaning of sound in the creation of relationship with the environment.
In her latest research she studies the lamenting tradition and how it lives in the contemporary world, as well as what kind of meanings are give to it and how it is experiences in the body.
The funding for the research comes from KKES, foundation for the promoting Karelian culture, and Kone Foundation.
Research groups
Publications
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Bordering Musical Inheritances
Järviluoma, Helmi; Hytönen-Ng, Elina; Vakimo, Sonja; Pöllänen, Sinikka / Troubling Inherintances: Memory, Music, and Ageing. 2022. 2022 -
Empowered Mothers find a way into Sport: Mamanet
Tesler, Riki; Ng, Kwok; Gelber, Daniel; Hytönen-Ng, Elina / The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity. 2022. 2022 -
Kyynelkanavat - Nykyajan itkuvirret ja itkuvirsiperinteen merkitykset modernissa suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa
Hytönen-Ng, Elina, Patrikainen, Riikka, Silvonen, Viliina. Elore 28 1: 90-93. 2021 -
Rumpu nykyshamanismissa - tapaustutkimus luontoyhteydestä
Hytönen-Ng, Elina; Kouri, Jaana. Hybris 1/2020: 1-11. 2020 -
Kuuluminen ja kuulumattomuus vastaanottokeskuksen äänimaisemassa
Hytönen-Ng, Elina; Tarmio, Nora. Kulttuurintutkimus 35 1-2: 27-36. 2018 -
Contemporary British jazz musicians' relationship with the audience: Renditions of we-relations and intersubjectivity
Hytönen-Ng Elina. In: Tsioulakis Ioannis, Hytönen-Ng Elina (ed.) Musicians and Their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation. Routledge. s. 69-85. 2017 -
Place and imagined community in jazz
Hytönen-Ng Elina. Jazz Research Journal 11 1: 62-79. 2017 -
Musicians and Their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation
Tsioulakis Ioannis, Hytönen-Ng Elina. 2017 2017 -
Introduction to Musicians and Audiences
Tsioulakis Ioannis, Hytönen-Ng Elina. In: Tsioulakis Ioannis, Hytönen-Ng Elina (ed.) Musicians and Their Audiences: Performance, Speech and Mediation. Routledge. s. 1-12. 2017 -
The Role of Anthropological Literature on Contemporary Shamanic Practises
Hytönen-Ng Elina. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 25 1: 47-63. 2016