Elina Hytönen-Ng
Senior Researcher
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.
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Publications
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Esipuhe
Hytönen-Ng, Elina. 2024. Musiikin suunta. 46: -
Tutkimuskohteena itkupiiri ja itkuvirren kehollisuus
Kallonen, Emilia; Hytönen-Ng, Elina. 2024. Musiikin suunta. 46: . -
Weeping out Loud: Embodiment in the Contemporary Lament Learning Process
Hytönen-Ng, Elina; Kallonen, Emilia. 2024. Journal of somaesthetics. 2023; 9: 148-162 -
Book review: Perspectives on Anthropology of Music and Dance from the British Isles
Hytönen-Ng, Elina. 2023. Suomen antropologi. 47: 109-111 -
Lament is like a safe lap
Hytönen-Ng, Elina; Kallonen, Emilia. 2023. Seismograf/DMT. Peer Special Issue: Grief: . -
Ringing Tone and Drumming Sages in the Crevice Cave of Pirunkirkko, Koli, Finland
Rainio, Riitta; Hytönen-Ng, Elina. 2023. Open Archaeology. 9: . 20220328 -
”Miulla on vahva perintö Karjalasta” : Nykyitkijöiden suhde karjalaisuuteen Suomessa
Hytönen-Ng, Elina. 2023. Musiikki. 53: 56-86 -
Bordering Musical Inheritances
Järviluoma, Helmi; Hytönen-Ng, Elina; Pöllänen, Sonja. Teoksessa: Cohen, Sara; Grenier, Line; Jennings, Ros(toim.) , 2022. Troubling Inherintances: Memory, Music, and Ageing. s. 61-80. Bloomsbury academic -
COVID-19 and British Jazz Musicians: From Preliminal to a Postliminal World
Hytönen-Ng, Elina. 2022. Journal of world popular music. 9: 197–216 -
Kaksiosainen kokoelmateos suomen sukuisista vähemmistökielistä. Suutari, Pekka (toim.). 2021. Karjalankieliset rajalla
Hytönen-Ng, Elina. 2022. Elore. 29: 191-195