Musical Geographies and the Greek Canadian Experience in Toronto: Places, Cultures, & Diasporic Identities
The project “Musical Geographies and the Greek Canadian Experience in Toronto. Places, Cultures, & Diasporic Identities” explores the multiple interrelations between space and music to achieve a socio-spatial interpretation of the transnational diasporic musical cultures in Toronto. On an empirical level, the project focuses on the music places of the ‘Greektown on the Danforth’ during the 1960s and the 1970s to point out the emerging cultural, social, and political (non-politicized) identities, by connecting the urban space with the musical performances related to the Greek diaspora and by depicting musical geographies of the Greek Canadian experience. On a theoretical level, music, culture, identity, diaspora, community, and space are perceived through the socio-spatial processes occurring within the case study, elaborating on innovative approaches linking space with music. This consideration draws from a transdisciplinary view of space, based on the theoretical framework of critical geography. On a methodological level, the project combines research techniques from critical and cultural geography, oral history, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.