Made in Greece

Studies in Popular Music

Dafni Tragaki editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:9th Jul '18

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Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music serves 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.

"In her preface to Made in Greece, the editor, anthropologist Dafni Tragaki, proclaims the book’s ambitious task, namely ‘to question established notions of "the popular"’ and to ‘destabilize certainties about what is labelled "Greek popular music" and how we make sense of it’ (xi). As it turns out, the book rises quite successfully to the challenge, exposing the Greek case study as particularly conducive to a critical re-evaluation of the term. … Overall, Made in Greecesucceeds in painting a diverse picture of ‘the popular’ in Greek music, while issuing a theoretically-minded challenge to this very category as a substantive, globally-commensurable form."

— Oded Erez, Ethnomusicology Forum

"Made in Greece is of monumental importance for Greek popular music studies. It is the first book that attempts such a multidimensional, deep, and multifaceted analysis of one of the most fertile subjects of Greek identity agencies and politics; a music category that in all its contradictory manifestations has affected every Greek person. As such Made in Greece is a necessary addition to the reading list of every Modern Greek Studies scholar."

— Ioannis Tsekouras, Journal of Modern Greek Studies

ISBN: 9781138811980

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 612g

266 pages