The culture of kitharôidia / Timothy Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Timothy, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 15.

Hellenic studies series ; [15]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music, Greek and Roman--History and criticism.

Music, Greek and Roman.

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.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 638 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2010.

System Details:

text file

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 (pages 571-615) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Power, Timothy Conrad. Culture of kitharôidia.

OCLC:

944076657