Acculturation in the Eskimo Songs of the Greenlanders

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The traditional Eskimo music of Greenland has long since disappeared on the greater part of the west coast, but it still survives — though in an agonizing state — in East Greenland and North Greenland. These last named places of the Arctic island have been difficult of access and have consequently been submitted to a colonial or quasi-colonial status only at a late date.