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MUSIC AND ART
Rebetiki story on Public Radio
Yona Stamatis was interviewed live on Detroit Public Radio on April 24, 2009, together with the Exarcheia band Rebetiki Istoria which the next day gave a remarkable 3-hour rebetika concert in front of a 500-people capacity audience at the Music School of the University.
You may find this Public Radio program here: http://www.wdetfm.org/detroittoday/
Scroll down (you will see the bouzouki), click on the mp3 and listen. The rebetika story starts an hour into the show.
Gail Holst-Warhaft Interviewed by Yona Stamatis
Stamatis, a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology, interviewed Holst-Warhaft, distinguished scholar, poet, translator, and musician, as part of preparation for her Master’s thesis “Mikis Theodorakis’s Epitaphios, and the Redefinition of Greek Folk Music”, in which she analyzed Theodorakis’s attempt in the late 1950s to create a popular art-song style that would serve as a “genuine folk music” for Greece. Read more...
"Theodorakis and the Musical Memory of Greece" by Gail Holst-Warhaft
Theodorakis said once that "most popular music makes you forget. Greek music makes you remember." In Milan Kundera's great parable for a totalitarian regime, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Tamina is imprisoned on an island inhabited by children. Read more...
An Appreciation of Savina Yannatou, by Bill Loumpouridis
Have you ever noticed that once you buy a car, you suddenly become aware of how many cars of the same make and model are on the road? I had no idea how many Saab convertibles there were on the road until I purchased one, my disappointment with the commonality of my individual expression increasingly palpable with each sighting. Read more...
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