Helmi Järviluoma
Finnish scholar, musicologist, professor of cultural studies (University of Eastern Finland)
Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä (born 1960 in Ylivieska, North Ostrobothnia) is a Finnish scholar of sound, music, and culture, as well as a writer. She is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Eastern Finland. As sensory and soundscape ethnographer, Järviluoma has developed the mobile method of sensobiographic walking. Her research and artistic work span the fields of sensory memory, qualitative methodology (with a particular focus on gender), environmental cultural studies, sound art, and fiction writing. Järviluoma was married to Finnish writer Matti Mäkelä (1951–2019).
Early life and career
Helmi Inkeri Järviluoma was born in 1960 and attended high school in Ylivieska. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1982 and her master's degree in 1986 from the University of Tampere, specializing in folk tradition—particularly folk music—with a strong emphasis on sociology. She continued her studies in ethnomusicology and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Tampere in 1997.
Järviluoma joined the Department of Folk Tradition (later known as the Department of Music Anthropology) in 1986, and by 1992 she was appointed a Research Fellow. Between 1991 and 1992, she also served as the first director of the Institute of Rhythm Music in Seinäjoki, which focused on popular music.
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