The culture of kitharôidia / Timothy Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Timothy, 1979-

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 15.

Hellenic studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music, Greek and Roman--History and criticism.

Music, Greek and Roman.

Songs with cithara--History and criticism.

Songs with cithara.

Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.

Nero.

Terpander.

Music--Social aspects--Greece--History--To 146 B.C.

Music.

Music--Social aspects--Greece--History--146 B.C.-323 A.D.

Musicians--Greece.

Musicians.

Music--Social aspects.

History.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xiv, 638 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010.

Summary:

Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic period to the late Roman imperial era, citharodes enjoyed star status, playing their songs to vast crowds at festival competitions and concerts throughout the Mediterranean world.

"The Culture of Kitharoidia" is the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode. Traversing a wide range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia--poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions--the book offers a nuanced account of the aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the songmakers in the popular imagination, from mythical citharodes such as Orpheus to the controversial innovator Timotheus, to that most notorious of musical dilettantes, Nero.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780674021389

067402138X

OCLC:

658807564