Paradosiaka: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

By (author) Kallimopoulou, Eleni

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 'paradosiaka' ('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, paradosiaka 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 paradosiaka 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 paradosiaka musician. Some main themes discussed in the book are the migration of instruments from Turkey to Greece; the process of 'indigenization' whereby paradosiaka 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; and, 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.

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[目次]

  • Introduction
  • Delineation of the field
  • Ethnographic approach and representation
  • Part 1 The 1970s: Setting the Scene: History of ideas. A brief overview
  • Simon Karas and the chanting milieu
  • The Eastern instruments.
  • Part 2 The 1980s: the Early Actors: Ross daly
  • Dynameis tou Aigaiou
  • Encounters with Turkish culture.
  • Part 3 The 1990s: Indigenization and Professionalisation: Music schools for secondary education
  • The younger generation.
  • Part 4 The 2000s: Interconnections: Portrait of a musician
  • Paradosiaka and the world: international interfaces
  • In the Greek market
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Discography
  • Accompanying compact discs
  • Index.

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書名 Paradosiaka: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece
著作者等 Kallimopoulou, Eleni
シリーズ名 SOAS Musicology Series
出版元 Ashgate Publishing Limited
刊行年月 2009.07.20
ページ数 280p
大きさ H234 x W156
ISBN 9780754666301
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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