Talk:Throat singing

Throat singing ≠ Overtone singing

That's all. Slartibartfastibast (talk) 22:58, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Agree with sentence above (Throat singing ≠ Overtone singing) A recent comment (on September 30, 2021) by 157.157.113.126 states that " (Throat singing) is not an umbrella term –.... - Throat singing is synonymous of overtone singing in English." This is not supported by the vast literature on the topic : throat singing may include overtone singing, but that are not synonymous. There are several types of techniques called throat singing that are not mainly characterized by manipulations of perceptive changes in the separate overtones. The former disambiguation structure of the article mentions the following types which are not all of them exclusively effects of overtone singing (Tuvan throat singing, Mongolian throat singing, Inuit throat singing, Rekuhkara, Cantu a tenore) --LEO FUKS (talk) 14:37, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. I’d go a step further: overtone singing is not “included” in throat-singing at all, per se. Mostly I think this confusion arises because Tuvan singing styles frequently do both things at once. (Speaking of multiple things at once, overtone singing doesn’t just produce a sensation of multiple tones, it’s multiple tones.) Tellrobin (talk) 03:16, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

I removed the phrase "Inuit cultures in Canada (formerly called E.....s)". The removed phrase is considered demeaning as discussed in the third paragraph of this article. That word is hugely controversial as can be seen here. It is not necessary to the clear meaning of the sentence it was found in. Nick Beeson (talk) 13:14, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

@Nwbeeson: Read the article Eskimo properly. Despite popular misperception, Eskimo and Inuit are not the same concept. Eskimo is an umbrella term that includes the Inuit. The term Eskimo is also not considered offensive by all Eskimo groups. It's generally just Inuit that object to it, while other Eskimo groups are more accepting of the umbrella term. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 09:06, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

There are a couple discursions on this page about different objections one might raise against the use of the term “throat-singing.” Maybe those small controversies (I have heard at least one of them raised before) could be given a quick summation under their own subhead? I’m a pretty new user, so I’m not just going to leap in and do that much surgery myself, but that would seem tidier. Tellrobin (talk) 03:22, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Naming reliable sources that raise or discuss such objections would be helpful. Nardog (talk) 03:38, 14 May 2025 (UTC)