"Stay in Synch!": Performing Cosmopolitanism in an Athens Festival

<p>Synch is an electronic music festival that takes place in Athens every summer and brings together people of various cultural origins and musical and aesthetic interests. As a total performance event, Synch becomes a site of complexity, polyvocality and hybridity; a site which allows partici...

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Main Author: Vassiliki Lalioti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Griffith University 2013-11-01
Series:Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
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Online Access:https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/370
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Summary:<p>Synch is an electronic music festival that takes place in Athens every summer and brings together people of various cultural origins and musical and aesthetic interests. As a total performance event, Synch becomes a site of complexity, polyvocality and hybridity; a site which allows participants to create and express cosmopolitan attitudes of openness for others, people, ideas and experiences. Adopting an anthropological/ethnographic perspective, this paper moves beyond distinctions between elite vs. ordinary and consumer vs. ethical cosmopolitanism, and investigates Synch as a site where local and trans-local aspects of life and a set of socio-cultural meanings in Greece today are being negotiated.</p>
ISSN:1947-5403