Music, Folklore and Literature Archive of Simon and Aggeliki Karas, Centre for Research and Promotion of National Greek Music

Host Organization:

Center for Research and Promotion of Greek Music Tradition

Website:

https://tinyurl.com/kepem-arxeio

Contact:

tel. +30 210-8811930 και + 30 210-8237447

9 Ersis Street  and Poulcherias Street, Athens 11473

e-mail: info@kepem.org

Archive Supervisor:

Dimitrios Mantzouris

The Music, Folklore and Literature Archive of Simon and Angeliki Kara belongs to the Centre for the Research and Promotion of National Greek Music. The archive contains manuscript and audio-visual primary ethnographic material (recordings, video recordings, interviews, photographs), derived from field ethnographic research by Simon Karas and researchers of the Centre. The archive also contains printed material (books, concert programmes, newspaper and magazine cuttings, etc.) and secondary audiovisual material (discography, etc.), as well as a collection of folk musical instruments. The archive offers a wealth of material on Greek traditional music, Byzantine and ecclesiastical music.

Sources for the Archive:

· Giannopoulos Emmanouil St., I syllogi palaion psaltikon cheirografon tou Simonos Kara. Analytikos Perigrafikos Katalogos, Athens 2020

· Mantzouris Dimitrios, To archeio tou KEPEM kai oi praktikes diacheirisis tou: Apo tou Strefi stin koinonia, Lecture in Lykeion ton Ellinidon (26/2/2021) (Watch here: From 1:24:00 to 1:57:25).

Keywords:

Β

byzantine hymn, byzantine music

Ε

ecclesiastic music

F

folk music

Κ

Karas Simon

T

traditional music