This thesis examines selected
historical moments in the twentieth-century art music of Greece,
relating them both to their immediate political context and to the
two master narratives that to a significant extent have shaped the
cultural profile of the modern Greek nation, the ‘Great Idea’ and
the ‘European Idea’..........................Some
of the musical events under discussion will shed light on specific
indigenous cultural disputes. Others will highlight the impact of
international politics on Greek culture and will elaborate on the
manner in which foreign cultural and financial interventions prepared
the ground for, and facilitated the transfer of, new musical
languages (and their associated political messages) from the dominant
cultural ‘transmitters’ or centres to peripheral recipients such
as Greece, the only Balkan country that remained outside the iron
curtain in the post-World War II era.
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