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Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

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Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

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Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

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Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece book

ByEleni Kallimopoulou
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 28 November 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315247397
Pages 264
eBook ISBN 9781315247397
Subjects Area Studies, Arts, Language & Literature
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Kallimopoulou, E. (2009). Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315247397

ABSTRACT

Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaká' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes Turkish art music and folk and popular musics of Greece and Turkey, and identified by the use of instruments which previously had little or no performing tradition in Greece, paradosiaká has had to define itself by negotiating contrastive tendencies towards differentiation and a certain degree of overlapping in relation to a range of indigenous Greek musics. This monograph explores paradosiaká as a musical style and as a field of discourse, seeking to understand the relation between sound and meanings constructed through sound. It draws on interviews, commercial recordings, written musical discourse, and the author's own experience as a practising paradosiaká musician. Some main themes discussed in the book are the migration of instruments from Turkey to Greece; the process of 'indigenization' whereby paradosiaká was imbued with local meanings and aesthetic value; the accommodation of the style within official and popular discourses of 'Greekness'; its prophetic role in the rapprochement of Greek culture with modern Turkey and with suppressed aspects of the Greek Ottoman legacy; as well as the varied worldviews and current musical dilemmas of individual practitioners in the context of professionalization, commercialization, and the intensification of cross-cultural contact. The text is richly illustrated with transcriptions, illustrations and includes two audio CDs. The book makes a valuable contribution to ethnomusicology, cultural studies, as well as to the study of the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I The 1970s: Setting the Scene

chapter 1|20 pages

History of Ideas: A Brief Overview

chapter 2|12 pages

Símon Karás and the Chanting Milieu

chapter 3|10 pages

The Eastern Instruments

part |2 pages

Part II The 1980s: the Early Actors

chapter 4|26 pages

Ross Daly

chapter 5|28 pages

Dynámeis tou Aigaíou

chapter 6|20 pages

Encounters with Turkish Culture: Bosphorus, Ottoman Urban Music and the Romioí

part |2 pages

Part III The 1990s: Indigenization and Professionalization

chapter 7|12 pages

Music Schools for Secondary Education

chapter 8|30 pages

The Younger Generation

part |2 pages

Part IV The 2000s: Inter-Connections

chapter 9|18 pages

Portrait of a Musician: Sofía Lampropoúlou

chapter 10|12 pages

Paradosiaká and ‘the World’: International Interfaces

chapter 11|4 pages

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