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Speaker Event: Greek Music in Tarpon Springs, Florida

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Panayotis League is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University. He specializes in the traditional music of the Greek islands, northeastern Brazil, and Ireland. He has published extensively in ethnomusicology and his new book explores the musical heritage of Asia Minor in the United States, Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora (2021). Dr. League is an accomplished musician and recording artist. In 2018 he was awarded a Traditional Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and in 2019 was named a Master Artist by the Florida Folklife Program for performing and teaching the traditional music and oral poetry of Kalymnos in the Greek immigrant community of Tarpon Springs.