caa a22 4500 388113014 CHVBK 20180307125358.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0261143000009053 doi S0261143000009053 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0261143000009053 Dawe Kevin Minotaurs or musonauts? ‘World Music' and Cretan Music [Elektronische Daten] [Kevin Dawe] In a recent issue of Popular Music devoted to the music of the Middle East, Martin Stokes and Ruth Davis note that ‘the movement of Middle Eastern sounds into Western cultural spaces ... has largely been ignored' (1996, p. 255) and that ‘Middle Eastern popular musics will probably continue to mark an unassimilable and unwelcome "otherness” for most Europeans and Americans' (ibid, p. 257). In this paper, written partly in response to these remarks, I examine the movement of contemporary Middle Eastern sounds into Greek cultural space and Greek musical culture, a musical culture that has an affinity with ‘Eastern' musics but also a strong sense of its own identity. Middle Eastern music can indeed take on the form of an ‘unwelcome "otherness”' in Greece and I shall provide examples of this from my own fieldwork on the Greek island of Crete. Greece and the Greek islands are outposts, on the European periphery, on the frontier between ‘the East' and ‘the West', where a history of confrontations, invasions and forced exchanges in political, economic and demographic terms with the Middle East has ensued for millenia. Greece and Turkey still remain in dispute over territory from the Thracian borderlands to the smaller islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Popular Music Cambridge University Press 18/2(1999-05), 209-225 0261-1430 18:2<209 1999 18 PMU https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000009053 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000009053 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dawe Kevin NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Popular Music Cambridge University Press 18/2(1999-05), 209-225 0261-1430 18:2<209 1999 18 PMU CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 222687878 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge