Made in Greece

"In her preface to Made in Greece , the editor, anthropologist Dafni Tragaki, proclaims the book’s ambitious task, namely ‘to question established notions of "the popular"’ and to ‘destabilize certainties about what is labelled "Greek popular music" and how we make sense of it’ (xi). As it turns out, the book rises quite successfully to the challenge, exposing the Greek case study as particularly conducive to a critical re-evaluation of the term. … Overall, Made in Greece succeeds in painting a diverse picture of ‘the popular’ in Greek music, while issuing a theoretically-minded challenge to this very category as a substantive, globally-commensurable form."

— Oded Erez, Ethnomusicology Forum

"Made in Greece is of monumental importance for Greek popular music studies. It is the first book that attempts such a multidimensional, deep, and multifaceted analysis of one of the most fertile subjects of Greek identity agencies and politics; a music category that in all its contradictory manifestations has affected every Greek person. As such Made in Greece is a necessary addition to the reading list of every Modern Greek Studies scholar."

— Ioannis Tsekouras, Journal of Modern Greek Studies

"In her preface to Made in Greece , the editor, anthropologist Dafni Tragaki, proclaims the book’s ambitious task, namely ‘to question established notions of "the popular"’ and to ‘destabilize certainties about what is labelled "Greek popular music" and how we make sense of it’ (xi). As it turns out, the book rises quite successfully to the challenge, exposing the Greek case study as particularly conducive to a critical re-evaluation of the term. … Overall, Made in Greece succeeds in painting a diverse picture of ‘the popular’ in Greek music, while issuing a theoretically-minded challenge to this very category as a substantive, globally-commensurable form."

— Oded Erez, Ethnomusicology Forum

"Made in Greece is of monumental importance for Greek popular music studies. It is the first book that attempts such a multidimensional, deep, and multifaceted analysis of one of the most fertile subjects of Greek identity agencies and politics; a music category that in all its contradictory manifestations has affected every Greek person. As such Made in Greece is a necessary addition to the reading list of every Modern Greek Studies scholar."

— Ioannis Tsekouras, Journal of Modern Greek Studies

Dafni Tragaki is an ethnomusicologist and an assistant professor in the Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly.