7th Folk Mu­sic Re­searchers’ Sym­po­sium

The symposium focuses on folk music ed­u­ca­tion and sus­tain­able fu­tures.

Programme 27 February

08:30–09:15 Registration and coffee
09:15–09:30 Welcoming address and practical information (Black Box)

09:30–10:30 Keynote (Black Box)

Annukka Hirvasvuopio: Bringing Back the Voices of Our Ancestors: Developing and Indigenizing Sámi Music Education

10:30–10:45 Break

10:45–12:15 Sessions 1a–c (90 min)

1a Black Box

• Neea Lamminmäki: Rethinking music school education through Näppäri: Intergenerational meaning-making towards socio-cultural sustainability (30min)
• Olof Misgeld: Hearing movement, seeing music. (30 min) 
• Pauliina Syrjälä: Starting the Day with Open Senses: The Pedagogical Possibilities of Everyday Improvisation Practice (30min)

1b Inkeri

• Marie Fielding: Innovative practice, utilising self-assessment. (30 min)
• Emmi Kuittinen: The artistic practice and ethical issues of a folk singer in the context of folk traditions expressing grief (30min)
• Artturi Vuorinen: Soittajalähtöinen soitinkehitys: yksirivisen haitarin prototyypin rakentaminen (15min)

1c Tanssistudio

• Workshop Juhana Nyrhinen: Rapapalli – Uulu’s Sustainable Instrument Making Workshop (60min)
• Workshop Marjo Smolander: A participatory Kantele concert (30min)

12:15–13:45 Lunch, followed by relocation to the R Building

13:45–15:15 Sessions 2a–b (90 min)

2a Kamarimusiikkisali

• Susanne Rosenberg: Giving space, giving time, giving flow – Shadow singing as a method for attention in Folk Song Lab (30min)
• David Johnson: Sustaining Nordic singing traditions through online networks (30min)
• Gertrud Maria Huber: Alpine Yodeling: Raising awareness and building sustainable futures with a local musical tradition (30 min)

2b R-510

• Sanni Virta: Equity & Accessibility in Folk Music Educational Framework – Practices and Applications to Implement in Folk Music Pedagogy
• Pilvi Järvelä: Integrating Folk Music Aesthetics into Piano Pedagogy: Developing An Online Learning Resource (30 min)

15:15–15:30 Break

15:30–16:30 Panel session (Kamarimusiikkisali)

Kaisa Rönkkö, Matti Hakamäki, Annukka Hirvasvuopio, Unni Løvlid: Future visions for strengthening ecology in folk music education
Chair: Vilma Timonen

17:00–19:00 Evening gathering

The gatherin is meant for those who have registered and paid in advance (Agora, Musiikkitalo).

18:00 Optional concert for those interested

Programme 28 February

09:15–10:00 Morning session Organo 

Folk music group Tallari and Matti Hakamäki: 
Safeguarding music heritage – one concert at a time 

10:00–11:45 Sessions 3a–c (90–105min) 

3a Organo

• Sanda Joyce: “Samhradh Samhradh” and Beyond: Irish Song as Environmental Archive (30 min) 
• Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä & Outi Valo: The concept of folk music in Finland in the 2020s: perceptions, politics, and visions (30 min) 
• Emmi Kujanpää: Applying Intersectional Feminist Pedagogy in a Transnational Folk Singing Collaboration in Finland and Bulgaria 2018–2022 (30 min) 

3b Auditorio

• Aurora Fustinoni: Christina Nordqvist – den finlandssvenska kantelekulturens traditionsbärare (15 min) 
• Janeta Österberg: Insamlingen av Finlandssvensk folkmusik i Replot och Björköby – en sammanställning över Olof Reinhold och Wilhelm Sjöbergs samlingar samt en komparativ analys av dessa (15 min) 
• Anneli Kont: Kansanmusiikkiin pohjautuvan viulunsoiton opettamisesta Virossa 1990-luvun alussa (30min)  
• Oona Sinkko: Kolme esimerkkiä kansanmusiikin opetuksen toteutumisesta musiikin taiteen perusopetusta 
  tarjoavissa oppilaitoksissa 2020-luvulla) (15 min) 
• Pihla Perämäki: Laajennetut soittotekniikat improvisoivan kansanmusiikkiviulistin työkaluna (15 min) 

3c Tanssistudio

• Workshop Alina Kivivuori & Suvi Oskala: Folk it! camp’s pedagogical goals and practises (60 min) 
• Workshop Maija Karhinen-Ilo: Participatory Song and Dance (45min) 

11:45–13:00 Lunch break 

13:00–14:30 Sessions 4a–c (90 min) 

4a Organo

• Vilma Timonen: Heritage as ecology: Community-Driven Approaches and Living Heritage as Foundations of Folk Music Education (30 min) 
• Kristiina Ilmonen: Developing the Pine Flute for Contemporary Practice: Instrumental Ecologies in Folk Music (30 min) 
• Jo Asgeir Lie: Folk Culture education as a pedagogical principle (30 min) 

4b Auditorio

• Åse Àva Fredheim: Stories of Reclaiming Yoik (30min) 
• Pia Siirala: Omat kenttäaineistot ja kenttämuistiinpanot tšuktšien henkilölaulua koskevan tutkimuksen pohjana (30 min) 
• Viliina Silvonen: Karelian laments and cultural ownership (30 min) 

4c Tanssistudio

• Workshop Minna Koskenlahti: Redefining social structures as a female percussionist (30 min) 
• Workshop Puro Paju & Elisa Seppänen: Intercultural Music Education – Multisensory and Creative Methods (60 min) 

14:30–15:00 Coffee Break  

15:00–16:00 Sessions 5a–c (60 min) 

5a Organo

• Workshop Unni Løvlid: Your tonality is not my tonality -meetings between the performer, the composer and the (micro)tonality (60 min) 

5b Auditorio

• Anni Järvelä: Sustainability in folk music studies – Centria University of applied sciences as a case study (30 min) 
• Tuula Sharma Vassvik: Luohti as radical empathy – embodying the land (30min) 

5c Tanssistudio

• Workshop Suvi Oskala & Kirsi Vinkki: Accompaniment skills as a tool for teaching courage, improvisation and understanding of groove and other musical phenomena to violinists (60 min) min)

16:00-16:45 Closing session Organo 

Chair Kristiina Ilmonen 
Olof Misgeld, Pauliina Syrjälä, Jo Asgeir Lie, Sandra Joyce

Registration

Registration is closed.

Call for papers

The VII Symposium of Folk Music Researchers envisages the role of folk music education in building sustainable futures. The need to create visions is based, among other things, on the UNESCO Framework for Culture and Arts Education (2024), which strongly emphasises the role of arts education in addressing sustainability challenges. According to UNESCO, arts education, including folk music education, should be built on aspects of cultural and social sustainability in particular, but with ecological sustainability as a boundary condition. 

Culturally sustainable education involves, among other things, a holistic view of sustainability, support for cultural identities and the future-oriented safeguarding and enabling of cultural rights. Social sustainability encompasses the objectives of equality, inclusion, and the well-being of individuals and communities, as well as safeguarding fundamental rights and basic conditions for a good life that are passed down from one generation to the next. 

The symposium will approach folk music education from an ecological perspective, where the sustainability of intangible musical heritage and broader social and cultural sustainability can be understood as intertwined aspects of the past and future. The ecological perspective emphasises the link between music education and social phenomena and social systems, and thus its role and responsibilit