Grey Goose Chronicles

Grey Goose Chronicles

Did the Inuit invent Rap?

Aggressive verbal duels in Homer, the pastoral world and the Arctic. Some polar ethnomusicology, throat singing, beatboxing.

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Oct 09, 2025
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In this linguistic duel, two [Inuit] men, at least one of whom possessed some form of bitterness towards the other, would take turns at singing ironical songs of their composition, in order to make f…

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