Adelaide book launch to examine Balkan music, nationalism and cultural overlap

Festival Hellenika will big the Adelaide motorboat of Whose Is This Song? Nationalism, Greece and Shared Culture, an edited volume by Eleni Elefterias-Kostakidis, connected May 3 astatine the Lockleys Community Centre.

The motorboat will bring together Elefterias-Kostakidis, her singing spouse Felicia Harris, writer and world Dr Helen Vatsikopoulos, and writer Billy Cotsis, with a programme including discussion, movie excerpts and unrecorded music.

The publication includes contributions from a scope of scholars and writers, including Dr Vatsikopoulos, Cotsis, Dr Alfred Vincent, Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Professor Nicholas Doumanis, Dr Michael Karadjis, Professor Marian Țuțui, Jorge Sotirios, George Michelakakis and Kosta Vertsayia. Elefterias-Kostakidis, who edited the volume with support from Dr Vincent, besides contributes chapters.

The work draws connected themes raised successful Adela Peeva’s documentary Whose Is This Song?, which examines the shared use and competing claims surrounding a well-known Balkan melody crossed antithetic countries and communities.

In Greece, the tune is known arsenic Από ξένο τόπο (“From a Foreign Place”), while variations look crossed the portion successful antithetic taste and spiritual contexts. The documentary is available connected archive.org.

Festival Hellenika committee subordinate Irene Kavooris will MC the lawsuit and coordinate catering with a Balkan-themed nutrient offering included for attendees.

A sheet treatment will diagnostic Dr Helen Vatsikopoulos, Elefterias-Kostakidis and Billy Cotsis, focusing connected themes raised successful the book, including taste transmission, individuality and nationalism successful the Balkans.

The programme will besides see movie excerpts and a unrecorded show by Elefterias-Kostakidis and Felicia Harris, featuring songs successful Greek and Bosnian. The duo will besides look astatine a abstracted lawsuit connected May 1 for the motorboat of Cotsis’ documentary Greeks successful South America, where they will execute successful Greek and Spanish.

For much accusation connected these and different Festival Hellenika events, visit our Greek Guide events page. https://neoskosmos.com/en/greek-guide