{"id":17353,"date":"2026-01-26T08:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/?page_id=17353"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:34:29","slug":"music-folklore-and-literature-archive-of-simon-and-aggeliki-karas-centre-for-research-and-promotion-of-national-greek-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/institute\/db\/music-folklore-and-literature-archive-of-simon-and-aggeliki-karas-centre-for-research-and-promotion-of-national-greek-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Music, Folklore and Literature Archive of Simon and Aggeliki Karas, Centre for Research and Promotion of National Greek Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;82&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;82&#8243; anchor=&#8221;portfolio&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;8\/12&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #1c2122; font-size: 36px; line-height: 46px; margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Music, Folklore and Literature Archive of Simon and Aggeliki Karas, Centre for Research and Promotion of National Greek Music<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<b><strong>Host Organization:<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Center for Research and Promotion of Greek Music Tradition<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Website:<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kepem-arxeio<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>tel. +30 210-8811930\u00a0\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u00a0+ 30 210-8237447<\/p>\n<p>9 Ersis Street\u00a0 and Poulcherias Street, Athens 11473<\/p>\n<p>e-mail: info@kepem.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Archive Supervisor:<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dimitrios Mantzouris<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Sources for the Archive:<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Giannopoulos Emmanouil St.,\u00a0<em>I syllogi palaion psaltikon cheirografon tou Simonos Kara. Analytikos Perigrafikos Katalogos<\/em>, Athens 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Mantzouris Dimitrios, <em>To archeio tou KEPEM kai oi praktikes diacheirisis tou: Apo tou Strefi stin koinonia<\/em>, Lecture in Lykeion ton Ellinidon (26\/2\/2021) (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kTfJNDZz_u4\">Watch here<\/a>: From 1:24:00 to 1:57:25).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Keywords:<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>\u0392<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>byzantine hymn, byzantine music<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>\u0395<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>ecclesiastic music<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>F<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>folk music<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>\u039a<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Karas Simon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>T<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>traditional music<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/12&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;82&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;82&#8243; anchor=&#8221;portfolio&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;8\/12&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Music, Folklore and Literature Archive of Simon and Aggeliki Karas, Centre for Research and Promotion of National Greek Music [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Host Organization: Center for Research and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":16086,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17354,"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17353\/revisions\/17354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iemk.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}