Talk:Music of Greece

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[edit] Problems

These categories need a lot of rearranging. The island music can be broadly grouped under nisiotika, then broken down by island. Mainland styles should be grouped together, then broken down by northern and southern. And there's something called "Byzantine Music" intermediate between Ancient and Modern, and which still exists as a genre of church music (there's also still some performance of classical, Byzantine secular music as well).

I've also noticed conflation of dance styles with music styles in certain sections (like the "Peloponnesos" section, which badly needs to be renamed "Peloponnese"). Tsakonika isn't a style of music - in fact, Tsakonians have been singing their songs almost exclusively in Standard Modern Greek for quite some time, and I'm not aware of sufficient stylistic differences in the instrumental performances that would make it any different from other Peloponnesian varieties. The Tsakonians do perform unique dances, mainly women's dances, but these are, I believe, performed with vocal accompaniment only. --Jpbrenna 22:54, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Are you talking about this article? Or the articles in Category:Greek music in general? In either case, feel free to make changes. I wrote much of what's here, but I confess I'm no expert, so feel free to do what's needed. Tuf-Kat 21:11, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Both, actually. --Jpbrenna 21:22, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tsifteteli

I would suggest re-wording the Tsifteteli section like so:

Tsifteteli is a type of music that was bought over by refugees from Asia Minor in the 1920's. It is simillar to to belly dance (or raqs sharqi) music. The Arabic and Turkish influence on this type of music is very clear, and adds to the cultural similarities Greeks have with the Middle East. This is an extremely popular form of modern Greek music, and played almost everywhere in Greece. Some popular modern popular artists who include tsifteteli in their music are Despina Vandi, Eleni Karousaki, Yiorgos Mazonakis]], and many others.

If this is agreed to and someone throws it in, then please feel free to remove this comment.

-Harmil 20:21, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Modern Laiko

The article lacks reference to the Modern Laiko/pop and 'dog-music' Pictureuploader 18:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)