The project is the first interdisciplinary study of contemporary musical life in Greece that focuses on Western art music and its interface with other spheres of Greek culture, aiming to scrutinize questions regarding European integration. It concentrates on the post-2000 period, which coincides with the phase of economic and socio-cultural crisis in Greece, and analyzes a wide range of musical ontologies and agents (musicians, music halls, performances, audiences, media, bodies of culture) as well as their interaction and discourses.
The project has three objectives:
a) examining the complexities surrounding European integration on the cultural level at a crucial point in European history, with reference to Greece,
b) contributing to discussions about reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of music studies, and
c) offering a revisionist investigation of Greek art music that goes beyond the inspection of the life and work of composers and historical-cultural contexts, largely employed in conventional approaches.
Contemporary anthropological theories and methodologies, fieldwork, ethnographic research and discourse analysis will be used for the implementation of this project.
Deliverables will include, among others, academic publications, academic conference papers, an academic conference and the project’s website.
The project’s importance lies in a number of factors:
a) It will explore issues of European integration with reference to the case of Greece and will thus inform cultural policy-making.
b) It will contribute to ongoing methodological discussions in the field of music studies relating to interdisciplinarity.
c) It will produce a revisionist examination of Greek art music.
It is expected that this project will have an impact on the disciplines of musicology, anthropology and modern Greek studies, as well as on the Greek and European cultural policy- making.
The project has three objectives:
a) examining the complexities surrounding European integration on the cultural level at a crucial point in European history, with reference to Greece,
b) contributing to discussions about reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of music studies, and
c) offering a revisionist investigation of Greek art music that goes beyond the inspection of the life and work of composers and historical-cultural contexts, largely employed in conventional approaches.
Contemporary anthropological theories and methodologies, fieldwork, ethnographic research and discourse analysis will be used for the implementation of this project.
Deliverables will include, among others, academic publications, academic conference papers, an academic conference and the project’s website.
The project’s importance lies in a number of factors:
a) It will explore issues of European integration with reference to the case of Greece and will thus inform cultural policy-making.
b) It will contribute to ongoing methodological discussions in the field of music studies relating to interdisciplinarity.
c) It will produce a revisionist examination of Greek art music.
It is expected that this project will have an impact on the disciplines of musicology, anthropology and modern Greek studies, as well as on the Greek and European cultural policy- making.