Centring The Periphery: Local Identity in the Music of Theodore Antoniou and other Twentieth-Century Greek Composers
Michalis Andronikou|Friedemann Sallis
This study addresses aspects of local identity in the music Theodore Antoniou and other Greek contemporary composers. It highlights misapprehensions obsolete conceptions historiography aesthetics embedded use terms such as centre periphery or high- low-brow styles music, respectively. An overview history art Greece is attempted, for a better understanding these issues that context. The parallel reference to significant Western composers György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Mauricio Kagel supports primary argument essay, which seeks fair treatment all places find themselves peripheral given centre. case Greece—one cradles culture—is unique example problematic approach typical historiographies with regard “centres” “peripheries” needs be corrected.
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