The course examines specific ethnomusicological issues, such as:

  1. The distinction between the concepts of “tradition”, “folklore”, “folklorism”, “ethnic”, “Greek musical tradition”, “folk music”, “popular music”, “traditional music”
  2. Issues of orality and literacy in the Greek musical tradition
  3. Introduction to the cultural management of traditional-folk music
  4. Formulation and editing of the music program
  5. Communication and promotion of the music programme
  6. Research and writing of postgraduate thesis: choice of topic, formulation of the thesis, regulations
  7. Fieldwork methodology, management and exploitation of the resulting material
  8. Search and management of bibliographic and discographic research at a scientific level
  9. Distinguishing primary and secondary sources and their use in the context of writing a scientific paper or presenting a musical programme
  10. Recording of musical and non-musical material of traditional-folk music

 

Recommended literature

Eco, um. (1994). How a thesis is made. Athens: Isos

Fargion, J. T. (ed.). (2001). A Manual for Documentation, Fieldwork and Preservation for Ethnomusicologists. Bloomington

García, C.; Corona, L. (ed.). (2021). Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology. New York: Oxford University Press

Gilman, L.; Fenn, J. (ed.). (2019). Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork. Indiana University Press

Kallimopoulou, E. (2009). Paradosiaká: Music, meaning and identity in modern Greece. Ashgate

Music Library Association Working Group for Archival Description of Music Materials (December 2019). Guidelines for Archival Description of Notated Music. A Supplement to Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Music Library Association Working Group for Archival Description of Music Materials (October 2020). Archival Description of Notated Music

Nettl, B. (2016). Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one issues and concepts. Athens: Nisos Publications.

Veniakaki, A. (2021). Writing a scientific paper in the social sciences and humanities: a practical guide. Athens: Gutenberg

Dragoumis, M. (2003 & 2009). Our traditional music. Tom. 1 & 2. Athens: Publications of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies

Drulia L. and Liavas L. (ed.) (1999). Music of Thrace. A multidisciplinary approach: Evros. Athens: Association “Friends of Music”

Zorba M. (2014). The politics of culture. Europe and Greece in the second half of the 20th century. Athens: Patakis

Crab, P. (2006). Music as art, culture and ideology: An ethnographic study of Muslims in Thrace. Athens

Crab, P. (ed.) (2010). Folklore and tradition. Issues of re-representation and performance of music and dance. Athens: Nisos

Kakamboura, R. (2008). Life narratives. The biographical approach in modern folklore research. Athens: Atrapos Publications

Kallimopoulou, E.; Ballantina, A. (2014) Introduction to Ethnomusicology. Athens: Asini Publications.

Kapsokavadis, A. (2020). Musical meta-translations. Athens: Melodic Boat

Kokkonis, C. (2017). Folk music traditions. Logical readings/ Popular realizations. Athens: Fagotto Books

Lalioti, V. (2016). The soundtrack of our lives. Contemporary issues in the study of popular music. Athens: Papazisis

Merlier, M. Ο. (1935). Musical Folklore in Greece. Athens: Publications of the Musical Folklore Archive & Archives of the Musicological Archive and Bookstore I. Δ. Sideris

Department of Folk and Traditional Music, TEI of Epirus (2006). Music, sound and place: the texts. Arta

Department of Folk and Traditional Music, TEI of Epirus (2007). Pronouns: The texts. Arta

Hapsoulas, A. (2002). Musical recordings of melodies of Xeropotamos Drama. Athens: Papagrigoriou – Nakas Publications

____(2010). Ethnomusicology: historiographical and ethnographic dimensions. Athens: Isos