Music and Musicians in Crete: Performance and Ethnography in a Mediterranean Island Society

Every time Dawe (ethnomusicology, U. of Leeds) returned to Crete to continue the fieldwork for the doctoral dissertation (no date or institution cited) on which this study is based, he found the music and its environment changed. So the result is not only an ethnographic study, but also a history of change in music culture on the Mediterranean island from 1990 to 2000. He focuses on the music of the lyra, an upright bowed lute that he first encountered in 1989. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)