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Modernist Folklorism: Discourses on National Music in Greece and Turkey, 1900–45

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Modernist movements, authoritarian regimes, and revolutionary Utopias, all of which marked the twentieth-century history of Europe, cannot be grasped without an understanding of the temporal experience of the pre-First World War and interwar generations. How these individuals reappropriated the past, how they situated themselves with respect to the new generations, and how they framed their own experience of time are noteworthy questions that have much to do with how they wanted to change the world. The historian François Hartog, who has written extensively on the history of time, differentiated between the regime (of historicity), which refers to an active and non-neutral expression of temporal experience, and the epoch, which marks off time in a neutral fashion (Hartog, 1996). In a more recent essay, Hartog discussed the conditions for the temporalization of time, which, according to him, found its apogee in the modern regime of historicity, where the future dominates and progress is both the objective and the motor (Hartog, 2010, p. 11). This new reflection on time was the legacy of the Enlightenment, and shaped nineteenth. and twentieth-century reformers’ and intellectuals’ conceptualizations of ‘modern time’ and ‘progress’ (Koselleck, 2000, pp. 323-30).

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Erol, M. (2014). Modernist Folklorism: Discourses on National Music in Greece and Turkey, 1900–45. In: Mishkova, D., Trencsényi, B., Jalava, M. (eds) ‘Regimes of Historicity’ in Southeastern and Northern Europe, 1890–1945. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362476_14

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