Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge Global Popular Music Series)

__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. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 10 Preface 12 Series Foreword 14 Introduction: Greek Popular Music Studies? 16 Part I: Hugely Popular 30 1 Sentiment, Memory, and Identity in Greek Laiko Music (1945–1967) 32 2 Anna Vissi: Singing Greece’s Contemporary Socio-Cultural History 44 3 No More Babes on the Dance-Stage: The Changing Modes of Spectatorship in Athenian Live Music Nightclubs 56 Part II: Art Song Trajectories 68 4 “Art-Popular” Song and Modern Greek Poets – Interactions and Ideologies: The Case of Mikis Theodorakis 70 5 An “Impossible” Place: The Creative Antinomies of Manos Hadjidakis’ Modernism 80 6 Producing Entechno: Amalgamation and Hybridization in a Controversial Musical Style 98 Part III: Greekness beyond Greekness 112 7 Musical Poiesis, Erotic Cosmology, and Commodity Life: The Lena Platonos Project 114 8 Digital Music Creativity: Chipmusic in/from Greece 128 9 “Sharing What We Lack”: Contextualizing Live Experimental Music in Post-2009 Athens 140 Part IV: Counter-Stories 152 10 Popular Music and the Colonels: Terror and Manipulation under the Military Dictatorship (1967–1974) 154 11 Popular Gypsy Musicians and the Political Economy of Affect in Contemporary Greece 168 12 “Lëviz mo la!”: Albanian Rap Music Made in Athens 182 Part V: Present Musical Pasts 194 13 Popular Music in Crete: The Case of the Lyra-Laouto Ensemble 196 14 “Dedicated to the Jamaica of Greece!”: Inventing Tradition, Copyrighting Place, and World Music Transformations of an Island Folk Dance 206 15 Past Forward: Creative Re-inventions of Urban Popular Song in the Music of Sokratis Malamas 220 CODA 234 16 Is Zorba More Greek than Greek Music?: How Greek Music is Perceived and Reproduced beyond Greece’s Borders 234 AFTERWORD 244 17 A Head Full of Gold: A Discussion with Yiannis Angelakas 244 Notes on Contributors 264 Index 268 "[This work] 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."--Provided by publisher