Cosmopolitanism in Greek Historical Discography - Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum (original) (raw)

2023

Abstract

The Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum’s collection under the title of “Cosmopolitanism in Greek historical discography” constitutes a singular tool for examining and shedding light on cosmopolitanism in music over a wide geographical area, offering access not only to audio but also to visual data. This area includes the following broad regions: Europe (including Russia), North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States of America. In a few cases, recordings have been found in Central and Southeast Asia, and also in Central and South America. Crucial findings have resulted from this research, regarding the relationships between various “ethnic” repertoires. More specifically, dozens of music tunes have been detected and documented, which were recorded in Greek historical discography. The same tunes were recorded also in other repertoires (in some cases earlier and in others later than the Greek recordings). In essence, these are amongst the first recordings ever made, as the phenomenon of discography took its first steps in late 19th and early 20th centuries. Historical recording companies/labels, such as Gramophone, Odeon and Pathé, sent mobile workshops all over the world, and at the beginning of the century they recorded in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Smyrna (now Izmir), but also Thessaloniki, Athens, Alexandria and Cairo; in all these places we find Greek-language recordings.

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