Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tragaki, Dafni

Titel

Greek Music in America ed. by Tina Bucuvalas (review)

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2020-10, Vol.38 (2), p.568-571

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Greek Music in America is a collection of essays edited by Tina Bucuvalas, curator of art and historical resources with the City of Tarpon Springs, Florida, who has also served as a folklorist and director of the Florida Department of State. Greek Orthodox liturgical music (Frank Desby); the café aman musical tradition (Roderick Conway Morris); the amanes genre (Gail Holst-Warhaft); a comparison between rebetiko song and the blues that expands the geographical focus to Australia's Greek music scene (Stathis Gauntlett); the life and career of one of the most outstanding Greek musicians, George Katsaros, documenting the powerful networking of traditions by the international record industry (Frangos); the exploration of the place of spoken interjections in 78–rpm gramophone recordings of Greek songs (Michael G. Kaloyanides); and the intersection of Greek and Turkish song in America (Joseph G. Graziosi). Since several of the reprinted essays are apparently less accessible today, Part One largely serves the re-surfacing of carefully selected, highly influential archival, folklore, anthropological, literary, historical, and ethnomusicological published research on the topic, while inspiring their critical reconsideration and theoretical reframing. There is a plethora of information in the book's chapters inviting readers to rethink diverse zones of encounters and trajectories that can become audible in playing techniques, lyrical worlds, musical structures, genre formations, adaptations, dance styles, orchestration, the recording industry, and performance contexts.