{"id":1238,"date":"2023-07-10T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siteworx.gr\/amargianakis\/singers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T06:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T06:13:04","slug":"singers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/singers\/","title":{"rendered":"Singers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1238\" class=\"elementor elementor-1238 elementor-283\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ae950c7 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ae950c7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-28cac45\" data-id=\"28cac45\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9f59af elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f9f59af\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Singers  <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42abf52 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"42abf52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The archive has a similar wealth of material concerning singers. With regard to both instrumentalists and singers, the intended goal of the instigators of the archive (Foivos Anogianakis, George Amargianakis, Grigoris Sifakis) was to record musicians who lived in isolation in their villages, who had no contact with the mainstream Cretan music which was now being centrally formed by the radio, the Cretan festivals that had become quite commonplace in the 1980s and, in particular, record-making.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d07c2bf elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"d07c2bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 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The goal is, of course, utopian and infeasible: Pantelis Baritanonakis explains, in an interview given to Giorgos Amargianakis and found in our archive, that the main way to learn Cretan music and become a lyra player was to listen to the records of Stratis Kalogeridis and zealously copy them until he could play exactly like him.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37a5675 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"37a5675\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f2a7321 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f2a7321\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-818ebe7\" data-id=\"818ebe7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c93de39 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"c93de39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e5bd4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e5bd4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>However, the persistence of the creators of the archive is important. In the recordings that follow, which were made in the 1980s-1990s, listeners will perceive a singing style markedly different from the current one: more sparse, more austere, robust, without embellishments or showing off. The plan of the creators of the archive to record singing styles beyond the influences of discography and radio seems to have found its ideal incarnation in an amateur singer who had nothing whatsoever to do with the Cretan tradition: Nikolas Athanasakis from Astrochori, a village lying 55 km from Arta in Central Greece, travelled to Crete to visit his son, a student at the University, and fulfil an old personal vow he had made, since he was a fervent supporter of the politics of E. Venizelos and a fighter during the national resistance in WWII. G. Amargianakis did not miss the opportunity to record him and the result is truly impressive. This is also why the archive contains recordings of several amateur performers and singers of traditional Cretan music, many times of quite advanced age.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bb3f47 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"4bb3f47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singers The archive has a similar wealth of material concerning singers. With regard to both instrumentalists and singers, the intended goal of the instigators of the archive (Foivos Anogianakis, George Amargianakis, Grigoris Sifakis) was to record musicians who lived in isolation in their villages, who had no contact with the mainstream Cretan music which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1238\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amargianakis-archive.lib.uoc.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}