STREET MUSIC

Since antiquity, when rhapsodists traveled from city to city relaiting news in the form of songs, traveling musicians have been a fixture of Greek culture. Today, street musicians keep Greece's cities and villages alive with music in the most spotaneous form of musical expression. Iliaw Bourgiotis captures
the world of Greece's wandering musicians, from the village paniyiri to urban street corners, in this superb collection of images.
The photographs are accompanied by an insightful and informative text by Yorgos Papadakis, an award-winning composer of film scores and author
of seminal studies of traditional Greek music. Additional notes on traditional musical instruments were contributed by ethnomusicologist Nikos Dionyssopoulos.