Greek Popular Music in an American Cafe

Nancy Sultan

Greek Popular Music in an American Cafe

Illinois Wesleyan University

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Abstract

In my last contribution to Laografia (May/June 1994), I wrote about xenitiá and the poetics of pain associated with emigration in Greece. I examined some modern Greek songs along with some ancient Greek poetry to illustrate the long tradition of negativity associated with the idea of xenitiá. In this issue I will approach this same topic from a different angle; I present some results of field research that I conducted in 1987-88 with a group of Greek musicians who performed weekly at the Middle East Café in Cambridge, MA.

Original language	American English
Journal	Laographia
Volume	12
State	Published - Sep 1995

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities
Classics

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