Vol 8 Issue 2 March 2021-April 2021
Ioannis Andronoglou, Dr, Ifigeneia Vamvakidou, Prof.
Abstract: Since 1970 Postmodernism has dominated the compositions for guitar. Nowadays, composers, after a variety of compositions within the framework of Modernism, using the twelve-tone and serial technique, use elements of traditional music combined with modern compositional techniques. The top foreign guitar composers have already adopted postmodernism in their works, making it a global trend in guitar composition.
The research question concerns the degree of musical proximity of a particular guitar repertoire to eastern refugee communities as well as how Greek traditional music can be transmitted in postmodern prism to these communities as the particular movement deepens, on issues of identity and diversity as well as "underlines the move away from societies built up by industrialization and class allyism into ever more fragmented and pluralistic societies of "information", according to Heywood.
The main purpose of this report is to analyse specific works by Carlo Domeniconi regarding musical references to Eastern music and works by Ioannis Andronoglou regarding the Greek musical tradition and its communication to these communities through the guitar.
Compared with its roles in pre-modern societies, traditional music, previously called “folklore,” has been playing very different roles in the globalized world. These new roles, however, are rarely articulated in a systematic manner. While most discourse on the contemporary use of traditional music comes from the case studies of ethnomusicologists, the concept of “intangible cultural heritage,” which is usually associated with the initiatives of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (including traditional music), provides a new perspective to understand the new roles that traditional music plays in the postmodern world.
We support the social dimension, of the value of traditional music in the postmodern condition. The articulation of this social dimension of the contemporary use of traditional music serves to establish its universal relevance and to identify its unique character that makes it a powerful tool to serve as a counter-hegemonic force.
Keywords: postmodernism, guitar, refugees, traditional music, heritage.
Title: A Postmodern Approach to Traditional Music Themes in the Guitar Repertoire as a Point of Interconnection between Different Communities
Author: Ioannis Andronoglou, Dr, Ifigeneia Vamvakidou, Prof.
ISSN 2394-9716
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