PhD student Christina Michael will be presenting at the symposium MASTERING THE MIX: Interdisciplinarity in Musicology and Compositional Practice, which is going to be held on the 4th of June at Oxford Brooks University.

In the presentation Christina will focus on Manos Hadjidakis’ compositions for ancient Greek drama and the ways in which certain elements of authenticity and national identity are constantly raised. There will be a discussion over the so-called ‘Greekness’ of those works as well as a discussion on alleged relations to anterior genres of Greek music that lead to theories of musical continuity. Furthermore, there will be a specific focus on the shift of ‘art’ music to ‘popular’ on the stage of ancient Greek drama and the bridging of the chasm between the two through the creation of a new hybrid genre of music in Greece during the 1950s, that of the ‘art-popular’ tradition [entechno laiko].