Musical life in Tilos
Paper presented at the VI Meeting of the Study Group on
Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures
- International Council for Traditional Music (Unesco)
«Music in the Mediterranean Islands»
Venice, June 10th-12th 2004
With its 350 inhabitants, Tilos is the second least populated island in the Dodecanese, after Kastellorizo (which is much smaller). It is about 15 km long and 9 km wide (stretching from SE to NW), and its surface is 63 square kilometres, a little more than Leros, and fairly larger than Patmos.
Geographical and historical overview
Music in Tilos, today
Wedding in Karpathos, 1980.
The lyra player is singing into the microphone of a portable PA system
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