Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music

281 Pages·2018·13.973 MB·English

by  Dafni Tragaki (editor)

Made in Greece
Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Musicserves 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.
Dafni Tragaki is an ethnomusicologist and assistant professor in the Department of History,
Archaeology, and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly, Greece.
Routledge Global Popular Music Series
Series Editors: Franco Fabbri, Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito di Parma, Italy, and
Goffredo Plastino, Newcastle University, UK
The Routledge Global Popular Music Seriesprovides popular music scholars, teachers, students,
and musicologists with a well-informed and up-to-date introduction to different world popular
music scenes. The series of volumes can be used for academic teaching in popular music studies,
or as a collection of reference works. Written by those living and working in the countries about
which they write, this series is devoted to popular music largely unknown to Anglo-American
readers.
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Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Dafni Tragaki
Made in Greece
Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Dafni Tragaki
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tragaki, Dafni.
Title: Made in Greece : studies in popular music / [edited by] Dafni Tragaki.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017058557| ISBN 9781138811980 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781138489523 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular music—Greece—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC ML3499.G8 M33 2018 | DDC 781.6409495—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058557
ISBN: 978-1-138-81198-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-48952-3 (pbk)
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Series Foreword xiii
Introduction: Greek Popular Music Studies? 1
DAFNI TRAGAKI
Part I: Hugely Popular 15
1 Sentiment, Memory, and Identity in Greek LaikoMusic (1945–1967) 17
LEONIDAS ECONOMOU
2 Anna Vissi: Singing Greece’s Contemporary Socio-Cultural History 29
IOANNIS POLYCHRONAKIS
3 No More Babes on the Dance-Stage: The Changing Modes of Spectatorship
in Athenian Live Music Nightclubs 41
IOANNIS TSIOULAKIS
Part II: Art Song Trajectories 53
4 “Art-Popular” Song and Modern Greek Poets – Interactions and Ideologies:
The Case of Mikis Theodorakis 55
POLINA TAMBAKAKI
5 An “Impossible” Place: The Creative Antinomies of Manos Hadjidakis’
Modernism 65
PANAGIOTIS A. KANELLOPOULOS
6 Producing Entechno: Amalgamation and Hybridization in a Controversial
Musical Style 83
DIMITRIOS VARELOPOULOS
v
vi • Contents
Part III: Greekness beyond Greekness 97
7 Musical Poiesis, Erotic Cosmology, and Commodity Life: The Lena
Platonos Project 99
STATHIS GOURGOURIS
8 Digital Music Creativity: Chipmusic in/from Greece 113
MARILOU POLYMEROPOULOU
9 “Sharing What We Lack”: Contextualizing Live Experimental Music in
Post-2009 Athens 125
DANAE STEFANOU
Part IV: Counter-Stories 137
10 Popular Music and the Colonels: Terror and Manipulation under the
Military Dictatorship (1967–1974) 139
ANNA PAPAETI
11 Popular Gypsy Musicians and the Political Economy of Affect in
Contemporary Greece 153
ASPASIA (SISSIE) THEODOSIOU
12 “Lëviz mo la!”: Albanian Rap Music Made in Athens 167
LAMBRINI STYLIOU
Part V: Present Musical Pasts 179
13 Popular Music in Crete: The Case of the Lyra-LaoutoEnsemble 181
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 191
PANAYOTIS PANOPOULOS
15 Past Forward: Creative Re-inventions of Urban Popular Song in the Music
of Sokratis Malamas 205
DAFNI TRAGAKI
Contents • vii
CODA
16 Is ZorbaMore Greek than Greek Music?: How Greek Music is Perceived
and Reproduced beyond Greece’s Borders 219
GAIL HOLST-WARHAFT
AFTERWORD
17 A Head Full of Gold: A Discussion with Yiannis Angelakas 229
DAFNI TRAGAKI
Notes on Contributors 249
Index 253

Illustrations
Figures
2.1 Record cover of the single “Gia Sena” (For You) featuring Anna Vissi, 2015 30
3.1 Stage of Athenian pista covered in flowers 42
3.2 Yiorgos pushing two females off the stage 48
5.1 Manos Hadjidakis’ piano transcription of an excerpt from “Marsyas” 66
5.2 Manos Hadjidakis, actress Marika Kotopouli and director Takis Mouzenidis
during their cooperation for Aeschylus Oresteia 68
5.3 Record cover of Meghalos Erotikos 69
5.4 Manos Hadjidakis with composer Iannis Xenakis 71
5.5 Athens Experimental Orchestra (Peiramatiki Orchistra Athinon)concert
programme 72
5.6 Manos Hadjidakis and his musicians working at the studio for 15 Esperinoi 73
5.7 Andreas Rodousakis during a rehearsal with Hadjidakis’ Orchistra ton
Chromaton 74
5.8 Hadjidakis with some of his musician members of Orchistra ton Chromaton
at a rehearsal break 75
5.9 Manos Hadjidakis in conversation with a young man during an Anarchists’
Initiative protest 78
8.1 The Greek Chipscene Network 121
10.1 Gate of the former headquarters of the Special Interrogation Unit of the
Greek Military Police (EAT/ESA), 1976 146
10.2 Interrogation cell at EAT/ESA, 1976 147
11.1 Record cover of Rom by Nikos Kypourgos 157
11.2 Record cover of Songs of Greece’s Gypsies 158
11.3 Record cover of Recital 160
15.1 Sokratis Malamas on stage 214
17.1 Yiannis Angelakas today 231
17.2 Trypes 237
17.3 Yiannis Angelakas and Nikos Veliotis 238
17.4 Yiannis Angelakas and Dinos Sadikis 242
17.5 Album cover of Kefali Gemato Chrysafi 246
Table
9.1 Multi-space venues that hosted experimental music gigs in Athens on
a regular basis during all or part of the period 2009 to 2013 127
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