The Imagined Community of «True People»: Social Construction of the Rebetiko Musical Genre

Article

  • Вита Зеленская Independent researcher
Keywords: anthropology of music, musical anthropology, nationalism, rebetiko music, Modern Greek studies, Greek crisis

Abstract

[In Russian]

This article aims to show how the rebetiko musical genre is constructed in relation to modern social issues in contemporary Athens. I address the history of rebetiko perception throughout the 20th century, and how it is re-interpreted by the contemporary performers of this musical genre. In so doing, the article discovers how the concepts which surround the understanding of rebetiko as communist music, as urban marginal music or as a symbol of the Greek nation, are used in the construction of so-called «true» people – an imagined community of contemporary performers and listeners of rebetiko. The article argues that this reorientation of community around rebetiko represents an example of Greek national identity construction in a time of economic crisis.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Published
2018-08-23
How to Cite
Зеленская, В. (2018). The Imagined Community of «True People»: Social Construction of the Rebetiko Musical Genre. Topos, (1), 87-105. Retrieved from http://journals.ehu.lt/index.php/topos/article/view/132
Section
P.S. SOUNDSCAPES 2: SOUNDS AND SOCIETY