[MGSA-L] The Greek American Studies Resource Portal_2107 Update

Anagnostou, Georgios anagnostou.1 at osu.edu
Tue Jan 23 08:15:43 PST 2018


From the desk of the MGSA transnational studies committee

Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Archaeology

Kourelis, Kostis. “The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek-American Material Culture, 1873-1924,” in Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory, ed. Linda J. Hall, William R. Caraher, and R. Scott Moore, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 227-246.

Larkin, Karin and Randall H. McGuire eds. The Archaeology of Class War: The Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914 (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009)

Dissertations and Theses

Aravossitas, Themistoklis. The Hidden Schools: Mapping Greek Heritage Language Education in Canada, University of Toronto, 2016.
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/71722

Since the languages of immigrant communities in Canada are categorized as “non-official”, our government is under no obligation to contribute to the perpetuation of these languages. Furthermore, education, in general, is a provincial responsibility. Thus, no formal reporting and documentation of Heritage/International Language Programs takes place at the national level. Given this situation, the various ethnic community groups are left alone with the task of protecting their valuable linguistic and cultural heritages. Inevitably, without national information sharing or support from the Canadian government, HL policy and programming are in a precarious state. My study involves my participation in a community-based research project that aims to locate, map, assess and develop the Greek HLE resources in Canada. Theoretically based on the concepts of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Language Maintenance, my investigation (a) addresses the question of access to Greek language and culture education by exploring the programs and resources currently available to HL learners; (b) formulates an asset-based model to analyze the capacity of the Greek community's HLE system and proposes changes for its upgrade; and (c) develops a database to allow community members, HLE stakeholders and researchers to search for information about Greek language schools, community organizations and cultural events across Canada. Overall, this investigation addresses the retention and development of Canada’s cultural and linguistic resources through HLE. My findings demonstrate that for Heritage Languages to be maintained in Canada beyond the third generation, communities need to assume responsibility and foster three necessary conditions for educational success in the 21st century: access, innovation and motivation. As a starting point, I suggest locating, sharing and developing HLE assets through collaborations with stakeholders, including universities, governments, interested professionals and funding agencies. This study not only brings into prominence Greek HLE in Canada, but also underscores the passion and determination of immigrant communities to fully participate in mainstream society without diminishing their cultural and linguistic capital.

Diamanti-Karanou, Panagoula. The Relationship between Homeland and Diaspora: The Case of Greece and the Greek-American Community, Ph.D. diss., Northeastern University, 2015.
https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:379149

In an increasingly global world, diasporas are unique actors since they represent a fusion of the cultures, interests and mentalities of their old and new homelands. Thus, the relationship between homelands and diasporas becomes quite significant. Nevertheless, it remains understudied. This dissertation attempts to contribute to the study of this phenomenon through an in-depth examination of the relationship between Greece and the Greek diaspora in the United States. The Greek state and the Greek-American community are interdependent on each other. The state relies on the community for assistance in the areas of development, economic cooperation, humanitarian aid, and advocacy for foreign policy issues. The community relies on the Greek state for support with respect to Greek education and the preservation of Greek culture in the United States. The relationship between the two entities reflects the dynamics of a partnership although the state has tried in the past to extend its control over the Greek-American community. However, the community has proved its independence vis-Ã -vis the Greek state. In order to have a more fruitful partnership in the future, a number of conditions should be in place, including a systematic and well-planned diaspora policy on the part of the Greek state and better organized structures on the part of the Greek-American community. Moreover, a better and deeper knowledge and appreciation of each other is very important for any further cooperation: the Greek state needs to get to know the spectrum of Greek identity and culture that exists in the Greek-American community while the Greek-Americans need to have a deeper knowledge of Greece and Greek culture. The Greek-American diaspora can have a significant role as an agent of positive change and it can be a unique bridge between the two nations enriching them both at the same time.

Eleftheriou, Joanna, This Way Back: Essays from Cyprus. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2015. http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu:2083/iii/encore/record/C__Rb31735334__SEleftheriou,%20Joanna,%20author.__Orightresult__X3;jsessionid=8BFEDC1CF0A71B252C6500A6BE55DD66?lang=eng&suite=mobum-sso

This Way Back is a creative dissertation that explores the predicament of the transmigrant, the immigrant who has the capability of returning to the host country, and gets caught in an in-between space, not quite assimilated, and not quite unchanged. Transmigrant subjectivities coincide with globalized financial markets, and with twenty-first century forms of national allegiance. The text calls several binaries into question: Greek/Turk, Greek/Cypriot, Greek/American, gay/straight, male/female, ancient/modern, critical/creative writing, and, through its form, essay collection/memoir. The critical introduction, “Essay, Memoir, or Both? Hunger of Memory and the Problem of Nonfiction Hybrids” addresses this binary, and suggests that reading Hunger of Memory as a memoir animated by essayism makes possible a reconciliation of contradictions that have puzzled Rodriguez scholars in the past. The main, creative component of the dissertation relates stories from the authors life as a New-York-born Greek-speaking citizen of Cyprus: dancing to re-enact a mass suicide by jumping off a school stage onto gym mats, harvesting carobs on her great-grandfathers land, purchasing UNESCO-protected lace, traveling against her father’s wishes to the islands occupied north, and pruning cypress trees, geraniums, and jasmine after he grew too weak to lift the shears. Narrating these stories allows her to investigate questions of voluntary and forced migration, nationhood, and war. Political events such as the 1959 guerilla war against British rule, and the 1974 partition of the island, are conveyed through the stories of Cypriot people, the islands refugees and its returnees, among them the authors late father. Together, the essays are a memorial, one which embodies the links between political and personal loss; the individual and the environment; the living and the dead.


Grafos, Chris. Canada’s Greek Moment: Transnational Politics, Activists, and Spies during the Long Sixties, Ph.D. diss. York University (Canada), 2016.
https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/33505

This dissertation examines Greek immigrant homeland politics during the period of Greeces military dictatorship, 1967 to 1974, in Toronto and Montreal. It carefully considers the internal dynamics of anti-junta activism in Canadas Greek populations, but it also contemplates the meanings of external perceptions, particularly from the Canadian state and Canadian public discourse. The study acknowledges the dominant paradigm of Greek immigrants as unskilled workers, however, it demonstrates that this archetype is not monolithic. In many ways, it is challenged by a small number of Greeks who possessed skills to write letters to politicians, create petitions, organize public rallies, and politically mobilize others. At the same time, this dissertation carefully considers Canadas social and political environment and shows how uniquely Canadian politics ran parallel to and informed Greek homeland politics. Transnationalism is used as an analytical tool, which challenges the meaning of local/national borders and the perception that they are sealed containers. The main argument expressed here is that environments shape movements and migrant political culture does not develop in a vacuum. Each chapter deals with specific nuances of anti-junta activism in Toronto and Montreal. Chapter One examines the organized voices of the Greek community’s anti-dictatorship movement. The chapters latter section looks at how the Panhellenic Liberation Movement (PAK), led by Andreas Papandreou, consolidated itself as the main mouthpiece against Greece’s authoritarian regime. Chapter Two demonstrates that social movements occurring in Canada meshed neatly with anti-junta sentiment, mobilizing many Canadians against the dictatorship. Chapter Three shows how a few skilled Greeks shaped transnational narratives of resistance in local Greek leftist press. Chapters Four and Five examine RCMP surveillance documents related to local politics in Toronto and Montreal. In doing so, the chapters reveal that regional circumstances, particularly Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, shaped security concerns and definitions of Greek subversive activities. Overall, Canadas Greek moment was a complex tale of activism, surveillance, and transnational politics.

Karpathakis Anna. Sojourners and Settlers, Greek Immigrants of Astoria, New York. Ph.D. diss. Columbia University, 1993

League, Panayotis. Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora. Doctoral dissertation. Harvard University, 2017.

This dissertation focuses on the music and dance practices of Greek refugee and migrant families from the historical region of Aeolia or Western Anatolia (the Aegean coast of present-day Turkey and the island of Lesvos), including those who settled in the Boston area following the end of the Greco-Turkish War in 1922. Shortly after the end of the conflict, a population exchange between the two states resulted in the deportation of nearly 2 million Greek Orthodox Christians from Turkey – an event known to Greeks as the “Great Catastrophe.” Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Anatolian Greek communities of greater Boston and the island of Lesvos and a wealth of never-before examined archival material, this study examines the multitude of ways that Anatolian Greeks in diaspora have used musically-framed material culture to narrate their community's intergenerational story of displacement and adaptation and enable the preservation and transmission of repertoire, style, and both musical and social memory. Each chapter of this dissertation focuses on a distinct yet overlapping sphere of sensually-rich, performative relationships with material objects and bodily practices in Anatolian Greek music and dance. These include handwritten musical transcriptions from the early 1900s; commercial recordings, from 78 rpm records and piano rolls to compact discs; homemade reel-to-reel tape, cassette, and video recordings; the gendered performance of social dance; legacies of sonic and physical violence; and the role of commensal foodways in theorizing musical time. Drawing on the Greek concepts of myth and mimesis, I highlight the performative agency embedded in these objects and practices. In the process, I reveal that, beyond mere archives or venues of musical and social activity, they are sonic and material sites of emotional valence, nodes for the face-to-face mediation of personal and musical relations, and a means of engaging the body to craft a polytemporal sense of self. These musical archives and actions enter into a pluralistic dialogue with other human and non-human agents to reveal past musical practices, shape contemporary ones, produce ideas and memories about the musicians who made and used them, and contribute to an inherently relational model of Anatolian Greek personhood.

Piperoglou, Andonis. Greek Settlers: Race, Labour, and the Making of White Australia, 1890s-1920s. Doctoral Dissertation, La Trobe University, Victoria Australia.

Psarris Thomas Α. Από τη διασπορά στη «diaspora»: ο ελληνισμός της Αμερικής και ο ρόλος του στη διαμόρφωση της αμερικανικής εξωτερικής πολιτικής από το 1975 μέχρι σήμερα. [From the Greek word 'Διασπορά' to 'Diaspora': The Greeks Living in America and Their Role in the Formation of the American Foreign Policy from 1975 till the Present Day]. Master’s thesis, Pandeion University, 2015. http://pandemos.panteion.gr/index.php?op=record&type=0&q=%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AC&page=1&scope=0&lang=el&pid=iid:14079

The purpose of this paper is to show the contribution of the Greeks living in America in the formation of the American foreign policy as far as the Greek issues after 1975 are concerned. Furthermore, it aims at highlighting whether the foreign policy of America will continue to be influenced in the future since a variety of factors that have to do with the Americans of Greek descent have manipulated its action and suspended its course.

Soumakis, Fevronia K. A Sacred Paideia: The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, Immigration, and Education in New York City, 1959–1979. Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2015.
https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:200616

This dissertation examines the role the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America played in shaping Greek education in New York City during the period 1959-1979. Beginning in 1959, when Archbishop Iakovos was appointed as the fourth Archbishop by the Ecumenical Patriarch, the Archdiocese focused its attention on expanding and modernizing educational institutions. The Archbishop advocated for a “resurrection of a Greek Orthodox consciousness” in education that would instill knowledge of the Greek language, as well as the historical, cultural, and religious legacy of the Greek Orthodox nation. As parish communities in New York City and the new wave of Greek immigrants heeded the call to build and expand parochial schools over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the Archdiocese’s Department of Education also sought to modernize its curriculum and books, in addition to the challenging task of upgrading the teacher training program at St. Basil’s Academy. Modernization, however, did not entail assimilation and a diminishing of Hellenism, but a renewal of a Hellenic Orthodox identity within a religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. In part, several factors influenced the educational agenda of the Archdiocese: the historical position of the Church in relation to education, the needs of the new immigrants within the broader context of Greek Americans in the US, and the politics of Greece in relation to Cyprus and Turkey. This study ends in 1979 when shifts in demographics, declining enrollments, and competition with public schools compelled the Archdiocese and parish communities to reassess the future of their educational programs. This work weaves the Greek American immigrant experience into the broader narrative of immigration to New York in the post-1965 period. A more complex and dynamic portrait of Greek American education in New York emerges as well as the central role played by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. The insights from this work contribute the Greek American educational experience to the larger body of scholarship on the history of education in the United States.

Documentary

a) Documentaries

Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War [Ludlow, Οι Έλληνες στους Πολέμους του Άνθρακα]. 2016. Leonidas Vardaros Director, Frosso Tsouka Researcher. Apostolis Berbedes Non-Profit.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5865450/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

b) Other Documentary Material (short and amateur documentaries, identity narratives, etc)

Film

Journal of Modern Hellenism, Special issue

• Georgakas, Dan. “Introduction.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 1–3.

• Saltz, Barbara. “The Greek American Image in American Film: Creation of a Filmography.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 4–10.

• Georgakas, Dan. “From ‘Other’ to ‘One of Us’: The Changing Image of Greek Americans in American Film: 1943-1963.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 11-30.

• Katsan, Gerasimus. “The Hollywood Films of Irene Papas.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 31–44.

• Giallelis, Stathis. “Before and Beyond America America.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 45–53.

• Thomopoulos, Elaine. “And the Winner is Olympia Dukakis.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 54–65.

• Kalogeras, Yiorgos. “Working Through and Against Convention: The Hollywood Carer of A.I. Bezzerides.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 66–81.

• Yiannias James Vicki. Creating Images for Hollywood Classics. Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 82–95.

• Lagos G. Taso. “Forgotten Movie Theater Pioneer: Alexander Pantages and Immigrant Hollywood.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 96–114.

• Karalis Vrasidas. “John Cassavetes and the Uneasy Conformism of the American Middle Class.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 115–128.

• Jacques, Geoffrey. “Promises, Trust, Betrayal: The Art of Elia Kazan.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016): 129–157.

d) Film Reviews
Catsoulis, Jeannete. “‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’ Is Something Tired, Something New.” The New York Times, March 24, 2016. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/movies/my-big-fat-greek-wedding-2-review.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmovies&action=click&contentCollection=movies®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0&referer=
Kalogeropoulos, Householder. 2009. My Life in Ruins. Hellenic Communication Service. June 18. http://www.helleniccomserve.com/mylifeinruins.html.

Fine Art

Selz, Peter and William R. Valerio. Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century. New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999.

Folklore

Kaliambou, Maria. Oi ekdoseis ton Karpathion metanaston stin Ameriki. [Publications by Karpathian immigrants in America]. Karpathos and Folklore. Fourth International Congress of Karpathian Folklore (Karpathos, May 8-12, 2013) (Athens, 2016). Pp. 425–442 (in Greek).

Varajon, Sydney. “Interview with Tina Bucuvalas.” In Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters. December 2017.

Globalization, Transnationalism, Diaspora

Roudometof, Victor and Anna Karpathakis. “Greek Americans and Transnationalism: Religion, Class and Community.” Communities Across Borders: New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures. Eds. Paul Kennedy and Victor Roudometof, 41­­­­–54. London: Routledge, 2002.

b) Reviews

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. Review of Anastasia Christou and Russell King, Counter-Diaspora: The Greek Second Generation Returns “Home.” Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2014). Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 35.1 (Spring 2017): 252–57.

Kitroeff, Alexander. Review of Λίνα Βεντούρα και Λάμπρος Μπαλτσιώτης, editors, Το έθνος πέρα των συνόρων: «Ομογενειακές» πολιτικές του ελληνικού κράτους
Journal of Modern Greek Studies 34:1 (2016): 214–216.

Greek American Canon

Saloutos, Theodore. The Greeks in the United States. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1964
Greek American Studies

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “The Transformation of Greek America.” Bridge. March 9, 2017. https://bridge.fairead.net/anagnostou-transformation.

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Building Bridges, Probing Intersections.” Bridge. February 18, 2017. https://bridge.fairead.net/anagnostou-building-bridges

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. On Greek America, Greek American Studies and the Diasporic Perspective as Syncretism and Hybridity. Rethinking Greece. August 1, 2016.
http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/index.php/interviews/rethinking-greece/6104-rethiniking-greece-yiorgos-anagnostou-on-greek-america,-greek-american-studies-and-the-diasporic-prspctive-as-syncretism-and-hybridity

Greek Orthodoxy

Karpathakis, Anna. “‘Whose Church is it Anyway?’ Greek Immigrants of Astoria, New York and their Church.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 20:1 (1994): 97–122.

Matsoukas, George. “A Church in Captivity: The Greek Orthodox Church of America.” iUniverse (2008).

It is a disconcerting fact that decisions for Orthodox Christians living in North America are currently dictated by interests of foreign governments and patriarchates, all which contribute to spiritual indifference among the faithful. This collection of essays explores the loss of autonomy and unification within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and offers ways to create an all-encompassing church that respects cultures and philosophies. George Matsoukas, Executive Director of Orthodox Christian Laity in West Palm Beach, Florida and an active member of his local parish, diocese, and archdiocese, chronologically presents personal essays that respond to regression in the life of the church during a seven-year period. He encourages constructive change through effective communication and a partnership between the church and the laity, ultimately resulting in a church that is able to meet the spiritual needs of all its members.

Saloutos, Theodore. 1973. “The Greek Orthodox Church in the United States and Assimilation.” The International Migration Review Winter 7 (4): 395–407.

History

c) History and Historiography Scholarship

Καρπόζηλος, Κωστής. Κόκκινη Αμερική. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2016.

Kitroeff, Alexander. “Greeks and Greece.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, 2017.
http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/greeks-and-greece-modern/

Identity & Immigration

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Norms, Vulnerabilities, Paradoxes: Greeks and MTV.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 35:1 (2017): 155–179.

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Citizenship and Entrepreneurship: Greek America as Diaspora at a Time of Crisis,” Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity. Ed.  Dimitris Tziovas, 107–132. I.B. Tairus Publishers, 2017.

Haddad Ikonomopoulos, Marcia. “Immigration of Jews from Ioannina to the United States.” AHIF Policy Journal, Volume 8: Spring 2017. https://ahiworld.org/AHIFpolicyjournal/pdfs/Volume8Spring/11_Ikonomopoulos.pdf

The diversity in Greek culture is often ignored when scholars talk about immigration patterns and the nature of the Greek Diaspora. Looking at a specific region illustrates some of the nuances involved in mass immigration.

Καλογεράς, Γιώργος. «Εθνοτικές γεωγραφίες: Κοινωνικο-πολιτισμικές ταυτίσεις μίας μετανάστευσης.» Κατάρτι 2007.

Kitroeff, Alexander. “Greek Americans,” in Immigrant Strugges, Immigrant Gifts, ed. Diane Portnoy, Barry Portnoy, and Charles Riggs, Washington, D.C.: George Mason University Press, 2012, pp. 140-157.

Kitroeff, Alexander. Griegos en América [The Greeks in the Americas]. Madrid: Fondación MAPFRE, 1992.

Petrakis, Leonidas. “Defending and Advancing Hellenic Values and Interests.” Bridge. March 9, 2017. https://bridge.fairead.net/petrakis-defending

Papanikolas, Zeese. 2017. “Confessions of a Hyphenated Greek.” Bridge. March 28, 2017.
https://bridge.fairead.net/papanikolas-hyphenated

Lipsitz, George. 2007. “How Johnny Veliotis Became Johnny Otis.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 33:1&2 (2007): 81–104.

Language

Anonymous. “How a Half-Greek Father Taught his Quarter-Greek Daughter to Speak Greek Fairly Fluently in the American Midwest.” Bridge. March 18, 2017.  https://bridge.fairead.net/half-greek-father

Hantzopoulos, Marina. “English only? Greek language as currency in Queens, New York City.” Languages, Communities, and Education. (pp. 3-8). Ed. Zeena Zakharia and Tammy Arnstein, 3–8. Society for International Education: Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005. https://www.tc.columbia.edu/international-and-transcultural-studies/international-and-comparative-education/student-resources/iedcie-related-student-organizations/SIEVolume3Languages.pdf

Koliussi, LukiA. “Identity Construction in Discourse: Gender Tensions among Greek Americans in Chicago.” In Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City’s Neighborhoods. Ed. by Marcia Farr, 103–106. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Literature and Poetry

c) Poetry

Kindinger, Evangelia. “Living Separation: Xenitia in Contemporary Poetry of the Greek Diaspora.” Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry. Ed. Cornelia Freitag, 187–207. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Τρούσας, Φώντας. «Ο Θεοδόσης Άθας είναι ο στιχουργός του “Τζακ Ο’ Χάρα,” που είπε κάποτε ο Ζαμπέτας.» Δεκέμβριος 23, 2016.
http://www.lifo.gr/articles/music_articles/126592

d) Poetry – Reviews

Rakopoulos, Theodoros. “The Poetics of Diaspora: Greek US Voices.” Review Essay. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 34:1 (2016): 161–167. [Books reviewed:
• Nicos Alexiou (Νίκος Αλεξίου), Αστόρια: Εξορία, άνθρωποι, τόποι, ποίηση
• Nicholas Samaras, American Psalm, World Psalm
• Stephanos Papadopοulos, The Black Sea
• Yiorgos Anagnostou (Γιώργος Αναγνώστου), Διασπορικές διαδρομές
• Chrestos Tsiamis (Χρήστος Τσιάμης), Μαγικό Μανχάτταν
• Aliki Barnstone, Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems].

e) Literature and Poetry Scholarship

Patrona, Theodora D. Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature. Madison, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.

Music and Song

Ball, Eric L. “From Mantinades to Night-Rhymes: Composing an Imaginary Musical Tradition.” Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters. November 2017.

In this essay, I provide a rationale for my ongoing work as a "composer" by framing it in relation to contemporary Cretan traditional music, music composition in the academy, and a political issue (egalitarian social change). I begin by discussing my transformative experience with Cretan music, a tradition that includes significant participatory music-making elements and intersects with the island's extensively developed rhyming couplet (mantinada) tradition. I then consider academic composing in relation to noncomposed, improvised and/or participatory musics, and I look at both in relation to the issue of egalitarian social change. I overview my efforts to compose a kind of music that is meant to sound as if it were part of an imaginary musical tradition partly inspired by Cretan music and the mantinada. I end by articulating some questions, anxieties, and speculations that relate to these efforts.

Archival resource: Greece Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture, Compiled by Vivy Niotis. [collection of folk songs in Greek America, audios of liturgies] http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Greece.html

Oral History

Ottoman Greeks of the United States (OGUS): The Acropolis and the Madonna – A Case Study of Refugee Deportation from the United States. 2017 (January 13th)
http://oral.history.ufl.edu/2017/01/13/ottoman-greeks-of-the-united-states-ogus-the-acropolis-and-the-madonna-a-case-study-of-refugee-deportation-from-the-united-states/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spohp+%28Samuel+Proctor+Oral+History+Program+-+Podcast%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

Politics and Ethnicity

Lalaki, Despina. “From Plato to NATO 2,500 Years of Democracy and The End of History.” AHIF Policy Journal, Volume 8: Spring, 2017
https://ahiworld.org/AHIFpolicyjournal/pdfs/Volume8Spring/10_Lalaki.pdf


On the occasion of his recent visit to Greece, President Barack Obama’s remarks – protracted echoes of familiar pronouncements about the end of history and ideological evolution, endorsements of laissez-faire economics and the individual freedom that our Western democracies purportedly serve – not unexpectedly were uttered against a background of Doric columns and numerous invocations to the ancients. Appropriately if rather predictably, President Obama drew from history and stressed the strong connections between his country and his host, emphasizing the political culture shared between Greece and the United States. What caught my attention, however, was the American President’s explicit reference to President Truman, whom he briefly quoted from his famous 1947 speech in the Congress, a speech that encapsulated the post-war US foreign policy of containment and became known as the Truman Doctrine.

Politics and Ethnicity


a)    Debates (new category)

Greek America and President Elect Donald Trump

• Anagnostou, Yiorgos. Whose Greek America? Chronos #43. 26 November, 2016.
https://chronos.fairead.net/election16-anagnostou

• Kitroeff, Alexander. “There Are Progressive Views Of America; Let Them Be Heard.” Chronos #44. December 5, 2016. https://chronos.fairead.net/kitroeff-greek-amerika

• Papanikolas, Zeese. “Comments on Yiorgos Anagnostou.” Chronos #43. November 30, 2016. https://chronos.fairead.net/election16-papanikolas-comments

Blogs and Resource Portals


a)    Blogs

STLGreeks. https://stlgreeks.wordpress.com/
This is a blog dedicated to the early history of the Greeks in Saint Louis, MO.

Worldwide Greek Diaspora and Transnational Worlds

Australia

Piperoglou, Andonis. “Greeks or Turks, ‘White’ or ‘Asiatic’: Historicizing Castellorizian Racial-Consciousness, 1916-1920,” Journal of Australian Studies 40:4 (2016): 387-402.

Yiorgos Anagnostou & Kostis Kourelis, Co-chairs (2014-2017)

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