Music, language and identity in Greece : defining a national art music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos, Katerina Levidou and Roderick Beaton.
Contested histories : Greek art music in retrospect. Karl Otfried Mu˜ller and Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos : Dorism, music and Greek identity / Christophe Corbier ; Canonising Byzantine chant as Greek art music / Alexander Lingas ; National music history on the eve of 'the end of music history ': Greek music historiography and its Western models / Katy Romanou ; Odes, anthems and battle songs: creating citizens through music in Greece during the long nineteenth century / Kostas Kardamis ; Delving into the Athens Conservatoire Archive : musical education as a national need / Stella Kourmpana -- 'National music ': Kalomiris, Skalkottas and beyond. The harmonisation of Greek folk songs and Greek 'national music' / Panos Vlagopoulos ; Alternative Greek national music : the case of Petros Petridis / Nikos Maliaras ; The last defender : Kalomiris's Constantine Palaiologos and the 'Idea of Greek Music' / Ioannis Tsagkarakis ; A Greek icon : heteroglossia, ambiguity and identity in the music of Nikos Skalkottas / Eva Mantzourani ; A museum of Greekness : Skalkottas' 36 Greek dances as a record of his homeland and his time / Katerina Levidou ; Traversing melancholy : Skalkottas reads Esperas / Petros Vouvaris -- Music and language : modern poetry, ancient drama. 'You used to sing all my songs' : poetry, language and song from Solomos to Seferis / Peter Mackridge ; Reading Polylas's 'Prolegomena' (1859) : poetry and music, history and cultural politics / Polina Tambakaki ; Can surrealism sing? Nikos Gatsos and song-writing / Effie Rentzou ; Greek productions of ancient Greek drama in the first half of the twentieth century : music and words / Anastasia Siopsi ; Performing (ancient) Greek modernism : modernist music and the staging of ancient drama / Kostas Chardas
Summary:
"The national element in music has been the subject of important studies yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory, and modern Greek studies), who investigate the links that connect music, language and national identity, focusing on the Greek paradigm. Through the study of the Greek case, the book paves the way for innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the formation of the 'national' in different cultures, shedding new light on ideologies and mechanisms of cultural policies"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London. Publications ; 21
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