ABSTRACT
Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Greek popular music. Each essay covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Greece, first presenting a general description of the history and background of popular music in Greece, followed by essays, written by leading scholars of Greek music, that are organized into thematic sections: Hugely Popular, Art-song Trajectories, Greekness beyond Greekness, Counter Stories, and Present Musical Pasts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|37 pages
Hugely Popular
chapter 3|11 pages
No More Babes on the Dance-Stage
The Changing Modes of Spectatorship in Athenian Live Music Nightclubs
part II|43 pages
Art Song Trajectories
chapter 4|10 pages
‘Art-Popular’ Song and Modern Greek Poets – Interactions and Ideologies
The Case of Mikis Theodorakis
chapter 6|13 pages
Producing Entechno
Amalgamation and Hybridization in a Controversial Musical Style
part III|40 pages
Greekness beyond Greekness
chapter 9|12 pages
“Sharing What We Lack”
Contextualizing Live Experimental Music in Post-2009 Athens
part IV|41 pages
Counter-Stories
chapter 10|13 pages
Popular Music and the Colonels
Terror and Manipulation under the Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)
part V|70 pages
Present Musical Pasts
chapter 14|14 pages
“Dedicated to the Jamaica of Greece!”
Inventing Tradition, Copyrighting Place, and World Music Transformations of an Island Folk Dance
chapter 15|13 pages
Past Forward
Creative Re-inventions of Urban Popular Song in the Music of Sokratis Malamas
chapter 16|9 pages
Is Zorba More Greek than Greek Music?
How Greek Music is Perceived and Reproduced beyond Greece’s Borders
