Folk Poetry of Modern Greece

Beaton, Roderick

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“…In the case of Crete there has been a remarkable amount of scholarly investigation into local music (see, inter alias, Beaton 1980;Kapsomenos 1987;Ball 2000Ball , 2002Dawe 2003Dawe , 2005Dawe , 2007a, although little attention has been devoted to the small-scale loci of rebetiko. I therefore conducted fieldwork in Lakkos which ran counter to this trend by providing new insights into the locality and pre-history of the genre, and by demonstrating that the non-commercial tradition even appeared in areas allegedly associated with a closed local culture.…”

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Music-making in the social world of a Cretan town (Heraklion 1900–1960): a contribution to the study of non-commercialrebetiko

Zaimakis¹

2011

Pop. Mus.

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Drawing on a range of biographical, historical, ethnographical and musicological sources, this article presents the social and historical factors contributing to the evolution in the early 20th century of a local variant of rebetiko around the Lakkos brothel district in Heraklion, the largest city in Crete. It explores the influence of a wider multicultural context on local music-making and reveals the relationship between the social life and economy of the Lakkos area and its musical and stylistic sensibilities. Emphasis is also placed on the musical culture of local subcultural space, particularly with respect to the functions of musical practices in everyday life and the poetics of improvised songs. Investigation of the social world in Lakkos suggests that the forerunners of rebetiko can be explored as a hybrid music scene associated with cross-cultural interaction between different social and ethnic groups and musical traditions. The societal and aesthetic codes of this scene, with its low life themes, coarse melodies and allegedly alien influences were seen by local elites as compromising the moral values of respectable society and subverting efforts to cultivate a national identity.

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Music-making in the social world of a Cretan town (Heraklion 1900–1960): a contribution to the study of non-commercialrebetiko

Zaimakis¹

2011

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“…Banditry has been subjected to both romantic and realist attempts to construe its meaning. Hence, it has been one of the most widely used concepts in the exploration of crime, conflict, state‐building processes, violence, and atrocities, particularly in the 19th century, when nationalism, industrial revolution, and a new international order set the agenda of major sociopolitical institutions at the national and international level (Arlacchi, ; Beaton, ; Cassia, ; Curott & Fink, ; Esmer, ; Hobsbawm, ; Schneider & Schneider, ). These developments in the 19th century reverberated through the role of bandits, who brought dramatic changes into rural life and challenged state authority at the same time.…”

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Peasants, bandits, and state intervention: The consolidation of authority in the Ottoman Balkans and Southern Italy

Cayli

2017

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper explores the role of bandits and state intervention in the Ottoman Balkans and Southern Italy in the 19th century by using archival documents. I argue that the states may react similarly and radically when their authority is challenged in the periphery. The Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy developed the same forms of state intervention to fight against the bandits, even though these two states had fundamentally different political, cultural, and socio-legal structures. I present three different forms of state intervention: (i) victim-centred state intervention; (ii) security-centred state intervention; and (iii) authority-centred state intervention. These three forms consolidated the state's authority while making the two states both fragile and dependent on other social agencies in the long term. I further claim that consolidation of the state's authority manifests the paradox of state intervention and creates more vulnerabilities in traumatic geographies

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“…The stories embedded in the lyrics of popular songs have been mined for instructions and support, have helped to create personal identities, and have stirred the public imagination. Lines from these ballads are quoted regularly and form the basis of a range of metaphorical beliefs that are carried through life and evoked when circumstances warrant (Detienne 1979;Beaton 1980;Alexiou 1983).…”

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Cracking the Code: Narrative and Political Mobilization in the Greek Resistance

Hart¹

1992

Social Science History

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That narrative can be more than a mechanical recitation of events is epitomized in Thucydides’ challenge to historiographical paradigms current during the fifth century B.C. In his definitive history of the war between Athens and Sparta, the Athenian general in effect tells a “story” with a beginning, middle, and end. Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War is anything but a neutral description of events. Instead, the collection interprets the conflict for the reader. The tale contains a discussion of the role of alternative military strategies and of the war’s wider political implications. According to Thucydides, the fractionization and polarization engendered by war as a mode of resolving political conflicts is too high a price to pay for victors and losers alike. Thucydides warns of psychic as well as material costs. Thus, the ancient political scientist tells the story of the Peloponnesian War to assert that the “sequences of real events be assessed as to their significance as elements of a moral drama” (White 1987: 21).

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Folk Poetry of Modern Greece

Cited by 65 publications

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Music-making in the social world of a Cretan town (Heraklion 1900–1960): a contribution to the study of non-commercialrebetiko

Music-making in the social world of a Cretan town (Heraklion 1900–1960): a contribution to the study of non-commercialrebetiko

Peasants, bandits, and state intervention: The consolidation of authority in the Ottoman Balkans and Southern Italy

Cracking the Code: Narrative and Political Mobilization in the Greek Resistance

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