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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Elena Paparizou, Anna Vissi, Despina Vandi, Kalomoira, Elli Kokkinou, Evridiki, Antique, Sunny Hatziargiri. Excerpt:Anna Vissi Anna Vissi (Greek : ), (born December 20, 1957) (known as Anna Vishy in Cypriot Greek ) is a Cypriot Greek singer , songwriter and actress , known mainly in Greece and her native country of Cyprus , with some international success within Europe , the United States and elsewhere. In the 1980s, Vissi began an exclusive collaboration with Nikos Karvelas , resulting in one of the most successful music partnerships in the nation's history. From 1995 to 2009, Vissi received 30 platinum certifications in Greece and has become one of the country's best-selling female artist, having sold over 9.5 million records worldwide. Her album Kravgi still remains one of the best-selling albums of the 2000s, and one of the best-selling albums of all time , while two others Travma and Antidoto are among the best-selling. She also had some success in the U.S.A. , reaching number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart with "Call Me ". Biography Childhood and origins Anna Vissi (aged 16) singing on a Cypriot TV show, just before moving to Greece . Anna Vissi was born on December 20, 1957, in Larnaca , Cyprus . She has been singing from a very early age, beginning formal musical studies at the age of six at a local conservatory. At the age of twelve she entered a talent competition and won first prize. Two years later, she was the main singer at Ayia Tilliria, which was also her first TV appearance. In 1973, her family moved to Athens , Greece where she was able to pursue her studies at the National Conservatory. She would eventually appear with a number of well-known Greek singers, such as George Dalaras , Haris Alexiou , and Vasilis Papakonstantinou , in the fam... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Greek dance is a very old tradition, being referred to by ancient authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian. There are different styles and interpretations from all of the islands and surrounding mainland areas. Each region formed its own choreography and style to fit in with their own ways. For example, island dances have more of a "watery" flow to them, while Pontic dancing closer to Black Sea, is very sharp. There are over 4000 traditional dances that come from all regions of Greece. There are also Pan Hellenic dances, which have been adopted throughout the Greek world. These include the tsamiko, syrtos, and kalamatianos. Traditional Greek dancing has a primarily social function. It brings the community together at key points of the year, such as Easter, the grape harvest or patronal festivals; and at key points in the lives of individuals and families, such as weddings. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Rebetiko. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 144. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek and respectively), occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early 1970s onwards. The word rebetiko/rebetika is generally assumed to be an adjectival form derived from the Greek word rebetis (plural: rebetes) (gr. , plural: ). The word rebetis is nowadays construed to mean a person who embodies aspects of character, dress, behavior, morals and ethics associated with a particular subculture. The word is closely related, but not identical in meaning, to the word mangas (plural: manges) (gr. , plural ). The etymology of the word rebetis remains the subject of dispute and uncertainty; an early scholar of rebetiko, Elias Petropoulos, and the modern Greek lexicographer G. Babiniotis, both offer various suggested derivations, but leave the question open. Although nowadays treated as a single genre, rebetiko is, musically speaking, a synthesis of elements of European music, the music of the various areas of the Greek mainland and the Greek islands, Greek ecclesiastical chant, often referred to as Byzantine music, and the modal traditions of Ottoman art music and café music. The melodies of most rebetiko songs are thus often considered to follow one or more dromos or dromoi (gr. , plural ). The names of the dromoi are derived in all but a few cases from the names of various Turkish modes, known in Turkish as makam. However, the majority of rebetiko songs have been accompanied by instruments capable of playing chords according to the Western harmonic...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1281835 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hyporchema, Pyrrhichios, Choreia, Cordax, Carpaea, Angelica, Sikinnis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hyporchema , was a lively kind of mimic dance which accompanied the songs used in the worship of Apollo, especially among the Dorians. It was performed by men and women. (Athen. xiv. p. 631.) A chorus of singers at the festivals of Apollo usually danced around the altar, while several other persons were appointed to accompany the action of the song with an appropriate mimic performance . Hyporchema was thus a lyric dance, and often passed into the playful and comic, whence Athenaeus (xiv. p. 630, ... Read more

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Chapters: Dance in Greek Mythology, Muses, Music in Greek Mythology, Apollo, Pan, Nymph, Satyr, Sappho, Siren, Korybantes, Maenad, Thalia, Euterpe, Marsyas, Aoide, Terpsichore, Urania, Eumolpus, Erato, Melpomene, Melete, Mneme, Thamyris, Polyhymnia, Apsara, Phemius, Mount Parnassus, Mimesis, Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Xanadu, Hexis, Anne Bradstreet, Juana Inés de La Cruz, Musaeum, Energeia, Sheri Martinelli, Calliope, Valley of the Muses, the Lantern Bearers, Tenth Muse, Dunamis, Apollonie Sabatier, Linus, Demodocus, Clio, the Nine Muses, Leila Waddell, the Disquieting Muses, Hypate, Thelxinoë, Mese, Nete, Daphnaie, Ialemus, the Tracking Satyrs, Cephisso, Enorches, Borysthenis, Apollonis, Birth of Hermes, Birth of Zeus, Pierides. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 293. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Apólln or Apelln), is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine, healing and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. Apollo was worshiped in both ancient Greek and Roman religion, as well as in the modern GrecoRoman Neopaganism. As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular godthe prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing were associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague as well as one who had the ability to cure. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Ap...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=594 ... Read more