ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of case studies of globalized popular Greek music to illustrate how children reproduced local musical elements that have otherwise been rejected. Byzantine sacred music is defined in a variety of ways, such as 'Greek church music', 'Byzantine chant' and 'Byzantine music'. Byzantine music denotes Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical music, the music that serves the liturgical needs of the Greek Orthodox Church, and which is also related to other Orthodox Churches of the Balkan countries and elsewhere. The children referred to the timeless 'unbroken historical continuity and purity' of the tradition of Byzantine chant. Greek popular musicians are fully conversant with the global language of contemporary rock, and pop, using synthesisers, drum machines, sequencers, samplers and overdriven electric guitars along with other Western stylistic and technical models from exotica to ambient, hip-hop to heavy metal, cool jazz to chill out and so on.
