The formation of an urban audience and the establishment of evening entertainment in the nineteenth-century cultural markets of the Levant

Avra Xepapadakou

The formation of an urban audience and the establishment of evening entertainment in the nineteenth-century cultural markets of the Levant

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Abstract

This paper aims to present the early stages and the socio-cultural parameters of the establishment of musical and theatrical institutions in nineteenth century Greece and in the wider ex-Ottoman Southeastern Europe. Concerts, opera, ballet and theatre productions, balls, light musical theatre, were all instantiations of an urban civilization, linked to city public life, and bourgeois needs and habits. Above all, opera corresponded to the urban custom of evening entertainment, involving social interaction, amusement and spectacle. We shall therefore attempt to trace the trajectory of these musical genres within the more general trend for urbanization and westernization running through the huge area between the Adriatic Sea, the Black Sea, the Aegean archipelago and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Original language	English
Publication status	Unpublished - 9 May 2019
Event	It sounds Greek to me: Greek Art Music since the Nineteenth Century - King's College London, London, United Kingdom Duration: 9 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/it-sounds-greek-to-me-greek-art-music-since-the-nineteenth-century-1

Workshop

Workshop	It sounds Greek to me
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	9/05/19 → 9/05/19
Internet address	https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/it-sounds-greek-to-me-greek-art-music-since-the-nineteenth-century-1

Keywords

music
musicology
performing arts
opera
Opera studies
theatre studies
Creative industries
Moden Greece
Modern Greek Culture
Modern Greek Studies
Nineteenth century literature and culture
Nineteenth century music
Nineteenth century studies

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Xepapadakou, A. (2019). The formation of an urban audience and the establishment of evening entertainment in the nineteenth-century cultural markets of the Levant. Paper presented at It sounds Greek to me, London, United Kingdom. https://www.academia.edu/39196043/The_formation_of_an_urban_audience_and_the_establishment_of_evening_entertainment_in_the_nineteenth_century_cultural_markets_of_the_Levant_London_May_2019_

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The formation of an urban audience and the establishment of evening entertainment in the nineteenth-century cultural markets of the Levant

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