Maria Papapavlou is Professor of Ethnomusicology-Music cultures of the Mediterranean at the Faculty of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was born in Switzerland and studied piano and music theory at the National Conservatory of Athens. She graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the University of Crete (1994). She holds a Ph.D. from the Institut f\u00fcr Ethnologie of Leipzig University in Germany (2000). She has conducted ethnomusicological fieldworks in Spain and Greece. Her current research interests focus on the relation of music with the transcendental, phenomenology of music and sound and historical and ethnographical interrelations between musics of western Mediterranean.
\nPublications (selection)<\/p>\n
Papapavlou, M. (2022). Music, Sound and Mysticism in the monotheistic traditions of the Mediterranean, Athens: Editions Nisos<\/p>\n
Papapavlou, M. (2015). The Experience of Syntagma Square: Music, emotions and new social movements, Athens: Editions of Colleagues (in Greek)<\/p>\n
Papapavlou, M., Lalioti,V. (2010). \u2018Because it\u2019s in our blood\u2019. From Ancient Greek Drama to Flamenco. Returning Anthropology to the field of experience, Athens: Edition Kritiki (in Greek)<\/p>\n
Papapavlou, M. (2003). The City as a Stage: Flamenco in Andalusian Culture, Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, vol.3 (2):14-24<\/p>\n
Papapavlou, M. (2000). Der Flamenco als Pr\u00e4sentation von Differenz. Gitanos und Mehrheits-bev\u00f6lkerung Westandalusiens in ethnologischer Perspektive. Cuvillier Verlag, G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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