Hanging By A Crotchet - Greek Music with Mano Paneras

This week I am joined by a very special guest, Mano Paneras, who will be taking us through the history and development of Greek music! Here is what Mano promises to deliver in this episode ...

Just as Nietzsche did in his reflections on why the Greeks gave ‘birth to tragedy’, in his book of the same name, together we will take a trip through the ancient times to the modern day of what Greek music was and what made it the way it is today. Why for ancient Greeks is the poet and the composer the same person, as well as the philosopher and the physicist. How true are our conjectures about what was the first Greek music? How did it develop? And what elements are still alive in the 21st century? Why is Rebetiko the Blues music of Greece? And how modern composers and artists like: Manos Hatzidakis, Thanasis Papakonstantinou, and Lena Platonos, combined folk Greek music, Rebetiko and Western music to give birth to Endechno, and to contemporary Greek music.