1st Edition

Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective Same Songs Changing Minds

By Daniel Koglin Copyright 2016
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebetiko to cultivate specific cultural habits and identities. In the past, rebetiko has been associated chiefly with the lower strata of Greek society. But Daniel Koglin approaches the subject from a... Read more

Glossary Index
List of tables
List of musical transcriptions
Preface



Introduction – The Discursive Construction of Rebetiko



Chapter 1 – Discursive Mode I (Myth): Telling Tales of Rebetiko



Chapter 2 – Discursive Mode II (Ritual): Performing Rites of Rebetiko



Chapter 3 – Rebetiko in Istanbul: A View from the Bosporus



Chapter 4 – The Semantic Space of Rebetiko



Chapter 5 – Rebetiko as a Conceptual and Experiential System



Appendix
References
List of figures

Biography

Daniel Koglin teaches music theory and flute instruments at a music school for Byzantine and traditional Greek music in Athens. He has authored Gelebtes Spiel - gespieltes Leben (2002) and several journal and book articles on Greek music. He holds a PhD degree in musicology from Humboldt University of Berlin.