ABSTRACT
The national element in music has been the subject of important studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory and modern Greek studies), who investi- gate the links that connect music, language and national identity, focusing on the Greek paradigm. Through the study of the Greek case, the book paves the way for innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the formation of the ‘national’ in different cultures, shedding new light on ideologies and mechanisms of cultural policies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Contested histories
chapter 1|16 pages
Karl Otfried Müller and Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos
15Dorism, music and Greek identity
chapter 3|9 pages
National music history on the eve of ‘the end of music history’
Greek music historiography and its Western models
chapter 4|12 pages
Odes, anthems and battle songs
Creating citizens through music in Greece during the long nineteenth century
chapter 5|32 pages
Delving into the Athens Conservatoire Archive
Musical education as a national need
part II|2 pages
‘National music’
chapter 8|19 pages
The last defender
Kalomiris’s Constantine Palaiologos and the ‘Idea of Greek Music’
chapter 9|21 pages
A Greek icon
Heteroglossia, ambiguity and identity in the music of Nikos Skalkottas
chapter 10|18 pages
A museum of ‘Greekness’
Skalkottas’s 36 Greek Dances as a record of his homeland and his time
part III|2 pages
Music and language
chapter 12|13 pages
‘You used to sing all my songs’
217Poetry, language and song from Solomos to Seferis
chapter 13|18 pages
Reading Polylas’s ‘Prolegomena’ (1859)
Poetry and music, history and cultural politics
chapter 15|12 pages
Greek productions of ancient Greek drama in the first half of the twentieth century
Music and words
chapter 16|18 pages
Performing (ancient) Greek modernism
Modernist music and the staging of ancient drama
