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Inuit Throat Singing in Popular Culture

  • John Metcalf's 1990 opera Tornrak features throat singing by the Inuit characters.
  • A scene of Inuit throat singing appears in the 1974 Timothy Bottoms film The White Dawn.
  • The 2003 film The Snow Walker contains a scene of Inuit throat singing.
  • The 2001 film Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) has a scene with Inuit throat singing.
  • The 2007 film, Wristcutters: A Love Story, features a "mute" character named Nanuk who practices this style of throat singing.
  • A rather imaginative variation on throat singing is featured in the 2007 Dan Simmons novel, The Terror.
  • In a scene of the The Simpsons Movie (2007), Homer Simpson is shown throat singing with an Inuit woman in order to have an epiphany.
  • Rick Mercer, in an episode of his self-hosted show Rick Mercer Report, attempted to throat sing with an Inuit woman when he visited the 2008 Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife.
  • An August 2008 an AT&T radio commercial references kadajjat/throat singing in reference to the speaker's roommate.
  • In 2005, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra recorded The Four Seasons Mosaic CD and DVD documentary. A reinvention of Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Mychael Danna featuring Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra; Jeanne Lamon, violin; Aruna Narayan, sarangi; Wen Zhao, pipa and throat singers Aqsarniit (Sylvia Cloutier and June Shappa).
  • The electropop band Row of Cookies incorporated a sample of Inuit throat singing in their version of the song New Girl Now by Honeymoon Suite.
  • The British ITV documentary Journey to the Edge of the World features Billy Connolly in the Canadian Arctic. In the second episode, he visits a pair of women demonstrating the finer points of throat singing.
  • The 2012 CBC TV drama series Arctic Air features a theme song written by Tim McCauley and performed by Tanya Tagaq incorporating elements of traditional Inuit throat singing over a modern dance beat.

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