Κατεύθυνση Εθνομουσικολογία και Πολιτισμική Ανθρωπολογία
Library of the School of Philosophy

2018-06-07

2018

Giannopoulou Evgenia

Χαψούλας Αναστάσιος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών Φιλοσοφικής ΕΚΠΑ.
Λαλιώτη Βασιλική, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών Φιλοσοφικής ΕΚΠΑ.
Παπαπαύλου Μαρία, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών Φιλοσοφικής ΕΚΠΑ.

Ο Ρόλος του Τραγουδιού στις Γυναικείες Φυλακές Αβέρωφ 1948-1952: Ιστορικές - Πολιτικές Διαστάσεις.

Greek

The Function of Song in Averoff Women's Prison 1948-1952: Historical - Political Perspectives.

The purpose of this Thesis is to investigate the function of song in female political prisoners’ life in Averoff Prison during 1948-1952. In the women’s section of Averoff Prison thousands of female political prisoners of all ages were incarcerated – even mothers with their minor children – persecuted by the state of postwar Greece for their participation in the National Resistance (Ethniki Antistasi) during the Axis occupation, through movements and organizations such as the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the National Liberation Front (EAM), the National Solidarity (EA), and the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON) as well as the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) during the Greek Civil War.
A brief description of the historical and political context of the time period from the liberation of Greece to the Greek Civil War is given, drawing on related bibliographic sources. The laws that instituted political persecution and repression such as displacing, imprisoning and executing the persecuted political opponents are discussed. The detention conditions in Averoff Women’s Prison as well as the way political prisoners organized their everyday life through “cohabitation groups” (omades symviosis) are investigated.
The Thesis draws on published memoirs – female political prisoners’ personal stories of their life in Averoff Prison - as well as recent interviews with political prisoners in order to gather information and details about song and its function. A document – cd with songs of Averoff Women’s Prison recorded by members of the women’s prison choir is also used as a reference point.
The Thesis focuses on the function of song - which was part of the political prisoners’ cultural activity – by examining songwriting and aspects of creativity: songs written by the women and original song lyrics which they appropriated to folk and popular songs. Furthermore, it examines the circumstances under which these songs were performed as well as the function of the women’s choir that was formatted by the political prisoners. The songs were inspired by the women’s life in prison: from the most traumatizing incidents such as the executions to the mockery of the everyday prison chores.
The process of making and performing of the songs by the women in Averoff Prison is viewed as a political act of resistance: a means of struggle for their collective survival, their encouragement and the retention of their humanity and political identity throughout the period of their imprisonment.

History

Averoff Women’ s Prison, Greek Civil War, communists, women in the “Resistance”, political prisoners, collective political identity, political persecution, torture, cohabitation groups, political song, political prisoners’ choir, executions, transfers of prisoners, prison Carols, political prisoners’ memoirs.

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