Eleni Kallimopoulou

Bio: Eleni Kallimopoulou is an academic researcher from University of Macedonia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnomusicology & Musical. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 7 publications receiving 19 citations.

"Magical Liturgy": A History of Sound at the Kyttaro Music Club, 1970–1974

Abstract: Kyttaro was an alternative club in the center of Athens during the Colonels' dictatorship. This article demonstrates how the affective economy and political energy of the live musical performances that took place there turned it into a vehicle of cultural and political contestation for the progressive youth of the time. It also challenges dominant periodizations in relation to the dictatorship, highlighting the continuities of cultural practices, group behavior, and youth protest. Lastly, drawing upon a range of sources, including oral testimonies with key figures in the music scene of the time, the article highlights the importance of sensorial and "from below" insights for the study of cultural phenomena.

Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

Abstract: Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaka' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes Turkish art music and folk and popular musics of Greece and Turkey, and identified by the use of instruments which previously had little or no performing tradition in Greece, paradosiaka has had to define itself by negotiating contrastive tendencies towards differentiation and a certain degree of overlapping in relation to a range of indigenous Greek musics. This monograph explores paradosiaka as a musical style and as a field of discourse, seeking to understand the relation between sound and meanings constructed through sound. It draws on interviews, commercial recordings, written musical discourse, and the author's own experience as a practising paradosiaka musician. Some main themes discussed in the book are the migration of instruments from Turkey to Greece; the process of 'indigenization' whereby paradosiaka was imbued with local meanings and aesthetic value; the accommodation of the style within official and popular discourses of 'Greekness'; its prophetic role in the rapprochement of Greek culture with modern Turkey and with suppressed aspects of the Greek Ottoman legacy; as well as the varied worldviews and current musical dilemmas of individual practitioners in the context of professionalization, commercialization, and the intensification of cross-cultural contact. The text is richly illustrated with transcriptions, illustrations and includes downloadable resources. The book makes a valuable contribution to ethnomusicology, cultural studies, as well as to the study of the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

Ethnomusicology and its Greek Meanings: Practices, Discourses, and Pedagogies in the University

Abstract: This article reports on Greek ethnomusicological discourses and practices and their institutional articulation in Greek tertiary education. I examine how ethnomusicology constitutes afield for the confrontation and interaction between competing local disciplinary paradigms and ideologies of identity and knowledge. Further, attention to two music departments reveals a consistent tendency to construct an "ethnomusicology of Greek music" by connecting ethnomusicology with Greek music.

We gotta get out of this place

Abstract: La campagne devant durer une annee de Fire International en faveur d'une meilleure securite incendie dans les hotels du monde entier commence avec cet article ecrit par JACKY SINCLAIR, une journaliste independante. Sa carriere l'a emmenee tout autour du globe et elle nous fait part de ses experiences dans des hotels, aussi bien en Europe que dans des pays plus eloignes.

Jazz in Athens: Frustrated Cosmopolitans in a Music Subculture

Abstract: This paper presents an ethnographic account of jazz music in Athens. The small scene under scrutiny is mainly populated by professional session instrumentalists of the Greek popular music scene who perform jazz as a side activity for their own pleasure. In the process, they construct a conceptual dichotomy between ‘work’ and ‘play’. Drawing on the author's extended involvement in this scene, and focusing on private interviews with musicians, this article unveils the discourses of cosmopolitanism invoked through local jazz music-making. The ethnographic material presented aims to illustrate how even a small subculture can serve as a terrain for contesting cosmopolitan imaginaries.

Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

Abstract: Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Eleni Kallimopoulou Year: 2009 Pages: 264 Publisher: Ashgate Publishing ISBN: 978-0-7546-6630-1 (hard cover). Prices: $114.95 USD(hard cover).