Greek Musicological Society
Annual Conference: Effects and Interactions
Athens, 25-27 November 2016
Round Table Topic:
Scholarly and popular intertexts in modern Greek music
Case study: The ‘Six popular pictures’ by Manos Hadjidakis
This round table includes a sequence of proposals and discussions which will elaborate on the overview of expression, ideas, rhetorics and mentalities which relate to the integration of the ‘popular’ into music creation. The ‘Six popular pictures’ by Manos Hadjidakis are to constitute a paradigmatic threshold for the consideration. In this context, issues are raised; regarding terminology (scholarly, artistic, popular etc.), issues regarding aesthetic definition of Greekness, as well as issues which refer to music creation per se (instrumentation-orchestration, form, modality, harmony, rhythmic composition etc.) The central axis is the intertextual relationship between the scholarly and the popular, as they are shaped after the generation of the 1930s, with the main vector being urban popular music.
The round table includes proposals and structured discussion by the following participants:
George Kokkonis, Assistant Professor Department of Popular and Traditional Music Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, ‘The popular, Greekness and the ‘artistic’ in modern Greek music’/‘Λαϊκότητα, ελληνικότητα και ‘έντεχνη’ νεοελληνική μουσική’
Panagiota Anagnostou, Professor/Instructor at the Department of Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Strasbourg, researcher at the Institute of European Cultural History, Luneville (IHCE), ‘Six popular pictures and the rebetiko: alternating social and musical reenactments’/ ‘‘Έξι λαϊκές ζωγραφιές και ρεμπέτικο: μεταβαλλόμενες κοινωνικές και μουσικές αναπαραστάσεις’
Nikos Ordoulidis, Academic Scholar Department of Popular and Traditional Music Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Approbations and Rejections in the Arrangements of the Rebetiko Songs of the Album ‘Six Popular Pictures’/‘Αποδοχές και απορρίψεις στις διασκευές των ρεμπέτικων που συγκροτούν τις ‘Έξι λαϊκές ζωγραφιές’’
Marika Robou-Lebidi, PhD in Anthropology, ‘Rallou Manou and the ‘Six popular pictures: In search of a ‘purely Greek dance art’’/ ‘Η Ραλλού Μάνου και οι ‘Έξι λαϊκές ζωγραφιές’: Σε αναζήτηση μιας ‘καθαρώς ελληνικής χορευτικής τέχνης’’
Maria Zoubouli, Assistant Professor Department of Popular and Traditional Music Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, ‘The ‘six pictures’ of Hadjidakis and the paintings of Moralis’ / ‘Οι ‘λαϊκές ζωγραφιές’ του Χατζιδάκι και η ζωγραφική του Μόραλη’
Polina Tabakaki, Researcher at the Centre for Greek Studies, King’s College, London, ‘Hadjidakis, the popular song and European literary modernism’ / ‘Ο Χατζιδάκις, το λαϊκό τραγούδι και ο ευρωπαϊκός λογοτεχνικός μοντερνισμός’
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Professor of Modern Greek Studies, St Cross College, University of Oxford, ‘A little more on popular (and minor/lesser/inferior??) modernism’ / ‘Ακόμα λίγα για τον λαϊκό (κι ελάσσονα) μοντερνισμό’
