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Musicology Colloquium Series with Panayotis League, Ph.D.
"Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora"
Presented by Musicology Colloquium Series
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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In this talk, Dr. Panayotis League will discuss his recently-published monograph, which explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe—the death and expulsion from Turkey of 1.5 million Greek Christians following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922—through the music and dance practices of Greek refugees and their descendants over the last one hundred years. The book draws extensively on original ethnographic research conducted in Greece (on the island of Lesvos in particular) and in the Greater Boston area, as well as on the author’s lifetime immersion in the North American Greek diaspora. Through analysis of handwritten music manuscripts, homemade audio recordings, and contemporary live performances, the presentation traces the routes of repertoire and style over generations and back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, investigating the ways that the particular musical traditions of the Anatolian Greek community have contributed to their understanding of their place in the global Greek diaspora and the wider post-Ottoman world.
Biography
Panayotis League is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University. A specialist in the dance music and oral poetry of the Greek Aegean, Northeast Brazil, and the American South, he publishes, performs, and records widely, and serves on the Executive Board of the Modern Greek Studies Association.
Biography
Panayotis League is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University. A specialist in the dance music and oral poetry of the Greek Aegean, Northeast Brazil, and the American South, he publishes, performs, and records widely, and serves on the Executive Board of the Modern Greek Studies Association.