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Paradosiaká : music, meaning and identity in modern Greece

A monograph that 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.
Print Book, English, ©2009
Ashgate, Farnham, England, ©2009
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 246 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
9780754666301, 0754666301
270230543
Contents: Introduction; Part I The 1970s: Setting the Scene: History of ideas. A brief overview; Símon Karás and the chanting milieu; The Eastern instruments. Part II The 1980s: the Early Actors: Ross Daly; Dynámeis tou Aigaíou; Encounters with Turkish culture: Bosphorus, Ottoman urban music and the Romioí. Part III The 1990s: Indigenization and Professionalization: Music schools for secondary education; The younger generation. Part IV The 2000s: Inter-Connections: Portrait of a musician: Sofía Lampropoúlou; Paradosiaká and 'the world': international interfaces; In the Greek market; Epilogue: paradosiaká futures ; Bibliography; Discography; Index.
נושא ישן: Folk music - Greece - history and criticism - Paradosiaka
נושא ישן: Folk music - Turkish - history and criticism - Paradosiaka