From cold war politics to covid-19 policies: Transformation and canonization of art music in Greece, 1950-2020

In this paper, the ever-changing perspectives of Greek art music are viewed from a retrospective standpoint both in the realm of transcending borders between centers and peripheries of 20th-century European music traditions and under the fluid context of social, ideological and cultural particularities of the Greek state during the second half of the 20th and the early 21st centuries. The identification of domestic cultural policies, whether impacted by foreign affairs, economics, or even the pandemic, undergoes cross-referencing with musical identities, trends, creative output, and institutions, in order to produce an interdisciplinary analysis of post-1950 music history and its key protagonists in Modern Greece.