Chapter 1 | Introduction Chapter 2 | Eastward Piano: The Project Chapter 3 | Interlude on Modeness Chapter 4 | The Piano Eastward: Early Recordings and Circuits of Practice Chapter 5 | Rebetiko and Greek Laiko Song Chapter 6 | The Laiko Piano Chapter 7 | The Rebetiko Era Album Chapter 8 | Detailed Presentation of the Pieces Appendix | The Scores
Biography
Nikos Ordoulidis is a Cultural Musicologist and Lead in Digital Humanities at AltSol. With over a decade of teaching experience at the University of Ioannina and the TEI of Epirus, his research explores the intersections of music, ideologies, and politics across Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporic networks in the United States. He is the author of Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music (2021) and has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications. He serves on the Executive Boards of the Early Recordings Association and the Steering Committee of the IMS Study Group ‘Music and Politics: Past and Present’. His postdoctoral project, Eastward Heterotopias of the Piano, was co-funded by Greece and the European Union.
