Dr. Anna Papaeti: Current research in the context of the research group "Music, Conflict and the State"

Dr. Anna Papaeti, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow 

This project critically examines music’s role in manipulation and terror under the Greek military Junta (1967–1974). The cultural politics and musical culture of the Junta belong to a larger history of social control under repressive Cold War regimes. So far, musicological attention on the Greek case has focused exclusively on the music of resistance to the dictatorship; the music of the regime itself remains unstudied.
This project aims to investigate three aspects of the Junta’s musical culture: music as a medium of manipulation and propaganda; the gender aspects of the masculinized Greek national identity propagated by the regime; and the use of music as a weapon of torture during interrogation.
An interdisciplinary framework for interpreting and assessing empirical findings will be developed from concepts and tools of psychoanalytical theory and Critical Theory.