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The Sixth International Conference on
“Researching Rebetiko: Present
Projects and Future Prospects”
“ETHNICITY, NATIONALISMS AND DIASPORAS”
Conference Programme
The Conference programme will include the
following elements:
PAPERS
ALI FUAT AYDIN and CENK GÜRAY [Izmir and
Ankara]: “The Role of Greek Composers in the Development of Classical Ottoman
Music”
ANNA BABALI
[University of Surrey]: “Constructions of Greek Musical Nationalism”
HANK BRADLEY:
Three Greek Musicians in the USA
ETTORE CASTAGNA: “On the Calabrian lyra” [Not confirmed]
ED EMERY [Institute
of Rebetology, London]: “The Music of Dimitris Gongos (‘Bayaderas’)”
NORMAN HEALY
[SOAS, London]: “An introduction to (Anatolian) Zeybeks and Zeybek music”
NIKOS POLITIS [Athens]: “The Zeibekiko and Hasapiko dances in the Rebetika songs
genre”
HARIS SARRIS
[University of Athens]: “The influence of the tsambouna bagpipe on the lyra
and the violin: searching for the ‘heart’ of the music of the Aegean”
OLAF
SCHÄFER [Berlin]: “I
Chira“: The first bouzouki-recording in Germany 1917
YONA STAMATIS [University of Michigan]: “Mikis Theodorakis and
the popularity of the Entechno Laiko Tragoudi”
KIRSTI THORSEN [Athens]: A paper on Seferis and Greek music
ZAHARR A. MANEVI (ZAHAROULA) [University of Economics, Izmir]: “Memoirs of a
Greek Dancer”
FILMS
Whose Song Is
This? (Adela Peeva, 2003)
The Hydra Rebetiko
Gathering (Emilio della Chiesa,
2006)
Musicians of the
World: Greek Music in Israel
(Leonidas Antonopoulos, 2006)
The Wonder of Görlitz
(Konstantinos Toubekis, 2006)
MUSIC
Once again our
director of music, KYRIAKOS GOUVENTAS, is bringing a team of musicians for the
Douskos Concert on Saturday 14 October. These will include
KYRIAKOS GOUVENTAS
(violin and baglama), MANOS KOUTSANGELIDHIS (kanonaki, vocals), KATERINA
MITROPOULOU (outi, vocals), DIMITRIS MISTAKIDIS (guitar, vocals) and NIKOS
MARMIGAS (bouzouki).
As usual, there will
be JAM SESSIONS happening spontaneously here and there. In general, the Friday
evening jam session take place at the To Steki restaurant, just up from the
harbour. The Saturday evening concert takes place at the Douskos Restaurant in
the centre of town.
CONFERENCE 2007
This is prior
notification of the Rebetiko Summer School to be held at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS, London) in late June 2007. This will involve a major
conference on ZEIBEKIKO AND ZEYBEK DANCE, bringing musicians, dancers and
researchers from both Greece and Turkey. Anyone wishing to attend this event
should contact rebetiko@soas.ac.uk
¶ The Hydra Rebetiko
Conference takes place as one of the activities of the
FREE UNIVERSITY
OF HYDRA.
¶ The FREE UNIVERSITY OF HYDRA is a conference-based
organisation created
with the support of the Mayor and Municipality of Hydra and dedicated to the
study and research of all matters concerning the culture, economics, history
and social life of all the countries which border the Mediterranean.
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