Friday, January 27, 2023 – Sunday, January 29, 2023 | Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert.”
With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
Introduction
Urban Popular Music, as we officially define rebetiko and popular songs, is a “language” that, like all the music of the world, needs its “grammar”, that is, the terminology and the set of rules that govern its structure and function, necessary elements to maintain, integrate into a modern education system and evolve. In this way, the gap left by the lack of experiential transmission, which has characterised its message so far from generation to generation, will be filled.
This “grammar” is missing from the Greek urban popular music, unlike most popular ones of other cultures.
The conference
The official recognition of folk musical instruments by the State in January 2021, the ranking of the studies of popular music and their inclusion in official music education require us to move forward and lay the foundations for creating a unified theoretical system for urban popular music.
On what existing theoretical system may we rely to fully understand and interpret the “grammatical” phenomena of this language?
On the maqam, the existing popular knowledge, or the theory of European music?
On any or none of them? Or on something else, new, combining them?
These are the central questions of the conference on Urban Popular Music that will take place at the Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert” of the Technopolis on January.27, 28 and 29, 2023
Eight musicians and educators
Four songs – one from each period of urban popular music
Eight morphological and modal analyses of the same four songs
In an attempt to find the standard code for a theoretical interpretation of Urban Popular Music.
Participants:
Ross Daly: Artistic Director of the Labyrinth Musical Workshop
Socrates Sinopoulos: Associate Professor in the Department of Musical Science and Art, University of Macedonia
EvgeniosVoulgaris: Head of the Greek Music Department in the Municipal Conservatory of Patras
Nikos Andrikos: Assistant Professor, Department of Music Studies, University of Ioannina
Kostas Tsougras: Adjunct professor at the School of Music of A.U.Th
Theodora Athanasiou: Music teacher
LefterisTsikouridis: Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia
DimitrisMystakidis: Special Teaching Staff at the Department of Music Studies of the University of Ioannina.
The conference proceedings will be published and distributed free of charge to the libraries of the Music Departments of the Universities.
Lectures
Friday, January 27
17.00 – 19.00: Lefteris Tsikouridis
19.15 – 20.45: Nikos Andrikos
Saturday, January 28
11.00 – 13.00: Dimitris Mystakidis
13.15 – 15.15: Theodora Athanasiou
16.15 – 18.15: Evgenios Voulgaris
18.30 – 20.30: Socrates Sinopoulos
Sunday, January 29
11.00 – 12.30: Kostas Tsougras
12.45 – 14.45: Ross Daly
Admission to lectures is free.
Lectures will be followed by live music performances daily.
Concert Schedule
Friday, January 27
22.00 – 23.30: Dimitris Mystakidis, Theodora Athanasiou, Kostas Tsougras, Lefteris
Tsikouridis
Saturday, January 28
22.00 – 23.30 Socrates Sinopoulos, Evgenios Voulgaris, Nikos Andrikos
Sunday, January 29
16.00 – 17.30 Ross Daly, Bijan Chemirani