Greek rebetiko from a psychocultural perspective : same songs changing minds / Daniel Koglin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koglin, Daniel, author.

Series:

SOAS musicology series

[SOAS musicology series]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rebetika--Greece--History and criticism.

Rebetika.

Rebetika--Turkey--History and criticism.

Popular music--Greece--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Greece.

Turkey.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 276 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2016]

Summary:

Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebetiko to cultivate specific cultural habits and identities. In the past, rebetiko has been associated chiefly with the lower strata of Greek society. But Daniel Koglin approaches the subject from a different perspective, exploring the mythological and ritual aspects of rebetiko, which intellectual elites on both sides of the Aegean Sea have adapted to their own world views in our age of globalized consumption. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods from ethnomusicology, ritual studies, conceptual history and music psychology, Koglin casts light on the role played by national perceptions in the processes of music production and consumption. His analysis reveals that rebetiko persistently oscillates between conceptual categories: it is a music both 'ours' and 'theirs', marginal and mainstream, joyful and grievous, sacred and profane. The study culminates in the thesis that this semantic multistability is not only a key concept to understanding the ongoing popularity of rebetiko in Greece, and its recent renaissance in Turkey, but also a fundamental aspect of the human experience on the south-eastern borders of Europe.

Contents:

Discursive mode I (myth) : telling tales of rebetiko

Discursive mode II (ritual) : performing rites of rebetiko

Rebetiko in Istanbul : a view from the Bosporus

The semantic space of rebetiko

Rebetiko as a conceptual and experiential system.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472465719

1472465717

OCLC:

912872734

Publisher Number:

40025793253