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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PRINCETON UNIVERSITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Seeger
<span class="Heading2Char">Center</span> for Hellenic Studies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Politics of Hybridity:
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dimitri Mitropoulos Reading C.P. Cavafy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Panos Vlagopoulos<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ionian University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, Hellenic Studies</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Respondent: Scott Burnham, Department of Music
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">'Hybridity' refers to the politics of problematizing the two poles of any given opposition, aiming at the emergence of a new pole, a
<i>tertium quid</i>. In the case of Cavafy such pairs would be: European vs. Oriental, Greek vs. Others, mainland vs. diaspora Greeks, demotic vs.
<i>katharevousa</i>, poetic vs. prosaic, to name but a few. Mitropoulos’s choice to set fourteen of the canonical Cavafy poems to music (<i>Ten</i>
<i>Inventions</i>) might have had its motivation not merely in the perception of a shared modernism, but in his realization of the importance of Cavafy’s life-and-work project to his own ones as a young homosexual composer; as well as of the eminent role in
 it of hybridity. If this be so, nothing could serve better Mitropoulos’s task in hand than the
<i>Sprechgesang </i>technique, itself a hybrid between speaking and singing, recently sanctioned by Schoenberg and Berg (his compositional heroes). Cavafy’s politics of hybridity in diction, verse technique, and subject is echoed in the musical style, vocal
 technique, and musical reference of the <i>Inventions</i>. However, hybridity in Cavafy was the means of a remarkable life and work integration, one responsible for the poet’s universality; not so in Mitropoulos. Cavafy’s explicitly full-hearted affirmation
 of the Mitropoulos settings, more than attesting to the poet’s modernism, was related to the former’s enthusiasm of finding in the latter a younger comrade-in-arms in art and life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Panagiotis Vlagopoulos</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> studied Law at the Democritus University
 of Thrace, and Musicology in Basel and Corfu. He completed his Ph.D. in the historiography of Ars nova under the supervision of Irmgard Lerch in 2004. He has worked as a Head of Acquisitions at the Music Library Lilian Voudouri in the Athens Megaron (1995-2003).
 He has published on Jani Christou, Wittgenstein and music, and on ideology in Modern Greek music. He teaches (since 2004) at the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University in Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Friday, March 2, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">1:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Supported by The Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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