Introduction: Greek Popular Music Studies?

Abstract

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The location is a suburban mansion with a spacious, grassy garden and a swimming pool, the fortress-home of the mysterious family featured in the widely discussed film Dogtooth. Dogtooth represents what has been termed the “third wave” or “weird wave” in Greek independent cinema, and was awarded the “Un Certain Regard” prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The 1960s’ cliches of the Greek musical self widely circulated on the big screen have of course been variously undermined in Greek cultural production ever since their materialization as cliches. The brief reflection on the global production of Greek popular music commonplaces given above could perhaps serve as a critical point for the reconsideration of its master narratives and epistemologies. The frictions and connections narrated in dominant epistemologies and public intimacies of Greek popular music regulate its positionality among others in terms of emplacement. © 2019 Taylor and Francis.