Made in Greece

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Dafni Tragaki


July 2018 | Routledge

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Introduction

Greek popular music studies?
DAFNI TRAGAKI

 

Part I: Hugely Popular

1. Sentiment, Memory, and Identity in Greek Laiko Music (1945–1967)
LEONIDAS ECONOMOU
2. Anna Vissi: Singing Greece’s Contemporary Socio-cultural History
IOANNIS POLYCHRONAKIS
3. No More Babes on the Dance-Stage: The Changing Modes of Spectatorship in Athenian Live Music Nightclubs
IOANNIS TSIOULAKIS

 

Part II: Art Song Trajectories

4. “Art-Popular” Song and Modern Greek Poets – Interactions and Ideologies: The Case of Mikis Theodorakis
POLINA TAMBAKAKI
5. An “impossible” topos: The creative antinomies of Manos Hadjidakis’ modernism
PANAGIOTIS A. KANELLOPOULOS
6. Producing entechno: Amalgamation and hybridization in a controversial musical style
DIMITRIOS VARELOPOULOS

 

Part III: Greekness beyond Greekness

7. Musical Poiesis, Erotic Cosmology, and Commodity Life: The Lena Platonos Project
STATHIS GOURGOURIS
8. Digital Music Creativity: Chipmusic in/from Greece
MARILOU POLYMEROPOULOU
9. “Sharing What We Lack”: Contextualizing Live Experimental Music in Post-2009 Athens
DANAE STEFANOU

 

Part IV: Counter Stories

10. Popular Music and the Colonels: Terror and Manipulation under the Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)
ANNA PAPAETI
11. Popular Gypsy Musicians and the Political Economy of Affect in Contemporary Greece
ASPASIA (SISSIE) THEODOSIOU
12. “Leviz mo la!”: Albanian Rap Music Made in Athens
LAMBRINI STYLIOU

 

Part V: Present Musical Pasts

13. Popular Music in Crete: The Case of the Lyra-Laouto Ensemble
IOANNIS PAPADATOS and KEVIN DAWE
14. “Dedicated to the Jamaica of Greece!”: Inventing Tradition, Copyrighting Place, and World Music Transformations of an Island Folk Dance
PANAYOTIS PANOPOULOS
15. Past Forward: Creative Re-inventions of Urban Popular Song in the Music of Sokratis Malamas
DAFNI TRAGAKI

 

Coda

16. Is Zorba More Greek than Greek Music? How Greek Music is Perceived and Reproduced beyond Greece’s Borders
GAIL HOLST-WARHAFT

 

Afterword

17. A Head Full of Gold: A Discussion with Yiannis Angelakas
DAFNI TRAGAKI