The Musical Landscape of Smyrna through the Greek Estudiantinas
Nikos Ordoulidis Early Recordings Association, University of Surrey
Invited by Dimitris Gianniodis École française d’Athènes
The lecture will be held in English
This lecture explores the musical landscape of Smyrna in the early twentieth century, focusing on the Greek estudiantinas as a central phenomenon of an urban cosmopolitanism that developed within a milieu of multiple cultural references. Drawing on evidence from historical recordings, literature, and the press, it highlights a dynamic field in which musicians drew inspiration from the Spanish tradition of estudiantinas and transformed it into a Greek-speaking soundscape code, grounded in aesthetic intersections stretching from the Mediterranean to the Balkans and Central Europe. Smyrna, as a quintessential site of cultural transformation, functioned as a hub of multiple circulations, where Greek musicians actively contributed to shaping a global musical network. The lecture proposes to view the estudiantinas as carriers of a polymorphic artistic creation, situated in one of the most emblematic locales east of the Aegean, shortly before the Catastrophe of 1922.
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AFEBALK (3 décembre 2025). #regardscroises The Musical Landscape of Smyrna through the Greek Estudiantinas. AFEBalk. Consulté le 13 janvier 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/159xt