About a year ago, Greek teacher and musician Athena Katsanevaki responded to a call we sent through the ICTM email list, as we were looking for ethnomusicology student groups all arround the world. Dr. Katsanevaki told us that she, together with her students, and some residents from Vertiskos (Thessaloniki, Greece) had recently concluded a research project, and that they wanted to share it in our blog.
The post that you are reading now has been taken shape for a while. This is a rich and in depth post with written, audovisual, and sonic components. The publication starts with an introduction written by Dr. Katsanevaki, followed by participant students’s texts (in both Greek and English languages) on their exeriences as part of the Vertiskos Project. The videos and sound files are all embedded at the end of the post. Dr. Katsanevaki has also written a text to contextualize the music, the place, and, all in all, the Vertiskos Project. This text, which includes a map, can be found twice throughout the post (at the end of the introduction and at the right side of the videos) in a purple button entitled “The Vertiskos Project in Context“. In this way, the reader can choose when to access the material presented in this section. We encourage you to read, listen, watch, and send them your feedback.
