Download or read book Cretan Music written by Maria Hnaraki and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crete is an island where many people from different countries, cultures and religions have lived and have left their traces. So isn't music in Crete today a product of all these mixtures and cultural elements? Dr. Maria Hnaraki's question is answered in the affirmative as the author takes us on a journey of discovery through the five steps/chapters of this book, constructed in the spirit of the traditional pendozalis five-step dance.
Download or read book The Music of Cretan Dances written by Michael George Kaloyanides and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The music of Cretan dances written by Michael George Kaloyanides and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Into the Labyrinth Unraveling Ariadne s Thread written by Maria Hnaraki and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Traditional Cretan Dance Music Forward written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music and Musicians in Crete written by Kevin Dawe and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed ethnographic study of lyra music and musicians in Crete, discussing the local music industry, teaching and performance infrastructure, repertoire, performance practice, gender and music, the role and significance of local musical instruments, poetry, dance, iconography, promotional materials, social change, globalization, world music, and diaspora.
Download or read book Top 10 Crete written by Robin Mikula and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated guide to Crete in the DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel series
Download or read book Top 10 Crete written by Robin Gauldie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are traveling first class or on a limited budget, DK Eyewitness Top 10: Crete will lead you straight to the very best this historic island has to offer. From ancient Minoan ruins to the towering Venetian wall and fortress of Heraklion, all the must-sees are covered in a trouble-free list format. There are accommodation reviews for every budget, from luxury beach resorts to youth hostels across the island. Dozens of Top 10 lists cover traveler highlights from the Top 10 best beaches and Top 10 traditional tavernas to the most charming villages and fascinating monasteries and churches, as well as the Top 10 best hotels in Crete. And to save you time and money, there’s even a list of the Top 10 Things to Avoid. Your guide to the 10 best of everything in Crete.
Download or read book Musical Tradition and Change on the Island of Crete written by Argyro Parlopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the changes in the traditional music of Crete that have transpired in the twentieth century, particularly since the 1950's. Chapter One reviews the ethnomusicological, and to a lesser extent the anthropological, literature on the music of the island; it also presents a history of Cretan music over the centuries, with special reference to the impact of the long Turkish occupation. In addition, it describes what Cretan music is consisted of and also focuses on the 'mantinades', the musical instruments associated with the Cretan tradition and dance. Chapter Two discusses the particular difficulties encountered by the researcher in conducting fieldwork in Crete. It highlights issues such as ethnomusicology "at home", pre-fieldwork and fieldwork period. Chapter Three deals with the nature and structure of musical 'glendia' events which are of central importance in the musical life of the island. It also considers the ethnographer's practice of learning to perform Cretan dances as a research technique in ethnomusicology. Chapter Four surveys the music profession Crete, and the networks of Cretan musicians. Chapter Five examines the complexities of how Cretans understand the concept of "tradition" with respect to current music performance in Crete and the new genres that have emerged. Chapter Six provides the conclusions to the research.
Download or read book Words as Events written by Venla Sykäri and published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they are widely being exchanged as text messages by Cretans. Focusing on the multi-functionality of the short form, Sykäri demonstrates how the traditional register gives voice to individual experiences in spontaneous utterances. The local focus on communicative economy and artistry is further examined in a close analysis of the processes and ideals of composition. By analyzing how the “restrictions” of form and performative conventions in fact generate impulses of creativity, the author creates a theoretical approach that is sensitive to the special characteristics of the short, rhymed poetic traditions. In this interdisciplinary study, the reader is invited to become familiar with the current folklore theory of oral poetry, which has a long tradition in Finland. The author combines the results of earlier folkloristic and anthropological insights, and extends the theoretical concerns further to address questions of spontaneity and individual agency. The research data has been produced in communicative interactions during long-term fieldwork. As a result, the short, rhymed poetry, often neglected by scholars in earlier research paradigms, can now be seen in new light – specifically as dialogic poetry – through its extended, multi-layered dialogic qualities.
Download or read book Island Songs written by Godfrey Baldacchino and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the close analysis of musical performance and tradition, the scholarly contributiors to Island Songs provide a global review of how island songs, their lyrics, and their singers engage with the challenges of modernity, migration, and social change uncovering common patterns despite the diversity and local character of their subjects"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Music for Exercises in Greek Dancing written by Louis Harvy Chalif and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo written by Mary Hamilton Swindler and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mikis Theodorakis His Music and Politics Durrell Studies 6 written by Gail Holst-Warhaft and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only comprehensive musical biography in English of Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021), the revolutionary Greek composer. The first edition (1980) was written with the assistance and support of Theodorakis himself; this new edition was commissioned after Theodorakis’ death and extends the assessment of his work to the operas, symphonies and other works composed since 1980. As a political figure in modern Greece, Theodorakis embodied the spirit of resistance to the abuse of authority, from the Nazi occupation of his country and the ensuing civil war to the military dictatorship of 1967-74 and beyond. Based on the author’s personal friendship and collaboration with Theodorakis, this musical biography is both a passionate and an authoritative account of the life-work of a man who became a popular hero in an age of anxiety.
Download or read book Island Musics written by Kevin Dawe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the music of Madagascar or Trinidad tell us about the islands themselves and their inhabitants? Is there something unique about island musics? How does island music differ from its mainland counterparts? Drawing on a range of diverse examples from around the globe, this book examines the culture of island music and offers insight into local identities. Case studies look at how music, tradition, popular culture and islander life are linked in modern maritime societies. The islands covered include Crete, Ibiza, Zanzibar, Trinidad, Cuba, Madagascar and Papua New Guinea. In revealing the current practice behind modern island musics, the book considers the role of world music, exotica, global tourism, novels and travel writing in constructing fanciful images of islanders and island life. Island Musics throws into question some of our most basic notions and assumptions about island societies. There are a number of problems common to all island societies that vary in significance depending on an islands size, demographics and its proximity to the mainland. Problems include remoteness and insularity, peripherality to centralized sites of decision-making, a limited range of natural resources, specialization of economics, small markets, a narrow skills base, poor infrastructure and environmental fragility. These issues are discussed in relation to the creation of music in the construction of an islander identity. Of particular interest is the way in which islanders discuss their music and how it articulates the idea of the other and diaspora. Finally, Island Musics considers the musical industry, music education and the preservation of musical cultural heritage.
Download or read book Greece and the Balkans written by Dimitris Tziovas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece and the Balkans explores the cultural relationships between Greece and other Balkan countries in the domains of language, literature, thought, translation, and music, and examines issues of identity and perception among the Balkan peoples themselves. The essays bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines: historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists with specialists on literature, translation, the history of ideas and religion. By raising issues of cultural hybridity, and nationalist or pre-nationalist interpretations of culture and history it lays claim to a place in the context of studies on nationalism and post-colonialism. Greece and the Balkans also contributes to a recognition of the Balkans as a site, like some postcolonial ones, where identities have become fused, orientalism and eurocentrism blurred and where religion and modernity clashed and co-existed. By approaching cultural encounters between Greece and the Balkans from a fresh and informed perspective, it makes a substantial contribution to the study of a rather neglected aspect in the history of a region which has suffered in the past from narrow-minded, nationalistic arguments.
Download or read book Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete written by David Holton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive study of the literature of the Cretan Renaissance and relates it to its historical, social and cultural context. Crete, ruled by Venice from 1211 to 1669, responded to the stimulus of contact with the Renaissance in a body of narrative, personal and dramatic poetry, written in the Cretan dialect, and now regarded as an important influence on Modern Greek literature. The historical background is related to an examination of the structure of Veneto-Cretan society, while the central chapters concentrate on the literary texts including tragedy, comedy, pastoral and religious drama.
