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Greek Music in America

Tina Bucuvalas

Abstract

Greek Music in America: A Reader provides a foundation for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays by the principal scholars in the field. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of the subject; despite the richness, diversity, and longevity of Greek music in America, there has been relatively little available on the topic. The volume includes several previously published essays, as well as recent work by contemporary specialists on the Greek diaspora. The book opens with a sociohistorical overview of Greek music in America, foll ... More

Keywords: Greek music, Greek diaspora, Greek American, Rebetika, Recording companies

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2018 Print ISBN-13: 9781496819703
Published to University Press of Mississippi: September 2019 DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781496819703.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Tina Bucuvalas, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Tina Bucuvalas

Overview of Greek Music in America1

Tina Bucuvalas and Stavros K. Frangos

Part One Musical Genre, Style, and Content

Growth of Liturgical Music in the Iakovian Era1

Frank Desby

Greek Café Music1

Roderick Conway Morris

Amanes: The Legacy of the Oriental Mother1

Gail Holst-Warhaft

Rebetika, the Blues of Greece—and Australia

Stathis Gauntlett, University of Melbourne

George Katsaros: The Last Café-Aman Performer1

Stavros K. Frangos

“Health to You, Marko, with Your Bouzouki!”: The Role of Spoken Interjection in Greek Musicians’ Imagined Performance World in Historical Recordings Made in America and Abroad1

Michael G. Kaloyanides

Turkish Music in the Greek American Experience

Joseph G. Graziosi

Part Two Places

Survival of Greek Folk Music in New York1

Sotirios (Sam) Chianis

Communities Born in Song1

Anna Caraveli

Musical Practice and Memory on the Edge of Two Worlds: Kalymnian Tsambouna and Song Repertoire in the Family of Nikitas Tsimouris1

Anna Lomax Wood

Alternate Resonances: Kalymnian Traditions in Tarpon Springs, Florida

Panayotis League

Part Three Delivering the Music: Recording Companies and Performance Venues

Greek Record Making in the Early Days, 1896–1937

Dick Spottswood

Greek Music Piano Rolls in the United States

Meletios Pouliopoulos

Encountering Greek American Soundscapes

Anthony Shay

Bouzoukis and Belly Dancers, Drinkers and Dreamers: A Look at Greek Nightlife at the Crossroads1

Nick Pappas

Part Four Profiles

Giorgos “Nisyrios” Makrigiannis (1875–1933)

Panayotis League

Madame Koula (circa 1880–1954)1

Stavros K. Frangos

George Dimitrios Grachis (1882–1965)1

Sotirios (Sam) Chianis

Harilaos Piperakis (1888–1978)

Panayotis League

Marika Papagika (1890–1943)1

Stavros K. Frangos

Theodotos “Tetos” Demetriades (1897–1971)

Stavros K. Frangos

Amalia Baka (1897–1979)1

David Soffa

Ioannis Halikias, aka Jack Gregory (1898–1957)1

Aydin Chaloupka

John K. Gianaros (1904–1998)

Stavros K. Frangos

Pericles Halkias (1909–2005)

Jim Stoynoff

Steve Zembillas (1923–2002) and the Grecophon Record Company

Stavros K. Frangos

Nicholas “Nicos” Tseperis (1923–2010) and Nina Records1

Meletios Pouliopoulos

Sotirios (Sam) Chianis (b. 1926)

Tina Bucuvalas

Ilias Kementzides (1926–2006)

National Endowment for the Arts

Giannis Tatasopoulos (1928–2001)

Tina Bucuvalas1

Gust J. (Dino) Pappas (1931–1999)

Stavros K. Frangos

Harilaos Papapostolou (1932–1998)

Kay Skordilis (b. 1936)

Tina Bucuvalas

Peter Stephen Kyvelos (1943–2017)

Michael G. Kaloyanides

Trio Bel Canto and Takis Elenis (b. 1948)

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George E. Soffos (1953–2013)

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End Matter

Appendix

References

Contributors

Index