Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Dafni Tragaki
July 2018 | Routledge
Introduction
Greek popular music studies?
DAFNI TRAGAKI
Part I: Hugely Popular
1. Sentiment, Memory, and Identity in Greek Laiko Music (1945–1967)
LEONIDAS ECONOMOU2. Anna Vissi: Singing Greece’s Contemporary Socio-cultural History
IOANNIS POLYCHRONAKIS3. 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 TAMBAKAKI5. An “impossible” topos: The creative antinomies of Manos Hadjidakis’ modernism
PANAGIOTIS A. KANELLOPOULOS6. 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 GOURGOURIS8. Digital Music Creativity: Chipmusic in/from Greece
MARILOU POLYMEROPOULOU9. “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 PAPAETI11. Popular Gypsy Musicians and the Political Economy of Affect in Contemporary Greece
ASPASIA (SISSIE) THEODOSIOU12. “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 DAWE14. “Dedicated to the Jamaica of Greece!”: Inventing Tradition, Copyrighting Place, and World Music Transformations of an Island Folk Dance
PANAYOTIS PANOPOULOS15. 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