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POPULAR MUSIC OF THE GREEK WORLD: A NOTE FROM THE ORGANISERS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2020

Roderick Beaton ,
John Bennet ,
Eleni Kallimopoulou ,
Panagiotis Poulos  and
Chris Williams
Roderick Beaton
Affiliation:
King's College London
John Bennet
Affiliation:
British School at Athens
Eleni Kallimopoulou
Affiliation:
University of Macedonia
Panagiotis Poulos
Affiliation:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Chris Williams*
Affiliation:
King's College London / British School at Athens
*
director@bsa.ac.uk
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In May 2019 the British School at Athens hosted an international conference on popular music of the Greek world. The conference aimed to explore and evaluate the diversity of Greek music apparent in the rich variety of local traditions and in the richness of urban popular music both established and emerging, and to examine its causes from broader musical, sociological and artistic perspectives. Rather than focus on particular forms, such as traditional folk music, rebetika, or the ‘new wave’ of the 1960s exemplified by the international success of composers such as Hadjidakis and Theodorakis, the conference set out to situate these traditions in a broader Greek context and also an explicitly international one, in this way building upon a growing trend (Bucuvalas 2019; Tragaki 2019).

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 115 , December 2020 , pp. 401 - 402
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens, 2020

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Bucuvalas, T. (ed.) 2019. Greek Music in America (Jackson, MS).Google Scholar
Tragaki, D. (ed.) 2019. Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music (London).Google Scholar