[MGSA-L] Euro Presents: Nationalizing Kalamatianós and Performing “Greekness” in Art Music : October 29, 2021 @12 PM

[Hess, Frank]

Hi everyone,



I’m pleased to announce the following talk at Indiana University Bloomington.



Regards,



Frank



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Euro Presents:
 Nationalizing Kalamatianós and Performing “Greekness” in Art Music
October 29, 2021 @12 PM
Zoom Meeting ID : 84368759817

Presented by: Despoina Panagiotidou, a 3rd year PhD student at the Department of Music Theory, Jacobs School of Music

Folk dance and dance-songs were used to reinforce cultural continuity and national identity in modern Greece. This study examines the links between kalamatianós dance with its characteristic septuple meter and the practices related to the creation of a national art music. Kalamatianós was modified, ritualized, and institutionalized since the beginning of the twentieth century, becoming recognized as a pan-Greek dance, elevated to a symbol for the new Greek nation. Enshrined in Romantic and modernist musical works, allusions to the dance were consciously used by twentieth century composers to elevate Greek music to the universal sphere of European art, expressing at the same time the dichotomy between tradition and innovation, and the locus of Greek identity in the liminal space between East and West.



Institute for European Studies
IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies
355 North Jordan Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-1105
Tel: (812) 855-4929 | Fax (812) 855-7695
www.iu.edu/~euroinst/<http://www.iu.edu/~euroinst/> | euroinst at indiana.edu<mailto:euroinst at indiana.edu>

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