Kostas Novakis
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Kostas Novakis (Greek: Κώστας Νοβάκης, Macedonian: Костас Новакис; born 1957) is a musician and amateur ethnographer from Greece. A member of the Slavic-speaking minority in Greek Macedonia, he is known for having collected and published recordings of traditional folk music in the local Macedonian Slavic dialects.[1]

Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Discography
3 Audio samples
4 Footnotes
5 See also


[edit] Biography
Kostas Novakis comes from Koufalia, near Giannitsa, Greece, where he works as a dentist. During the mid-1990s, he began recording traditional Slavic-Macedonian songs from elderly people in various places in western and central Macedonia. He began to perform these songs himself, together with his wife Haroula, an ethnic Greek[2] initially circulating CDs privately among friends. In 2002 and 2003, he published three CDs with a collection of such songs with a band of local instrumentalists and occasionally as well as two musicians from the Greek border towns of Gevgelija and Bogdanci in the neighbouring Republic of Macedonia,[1] with titles in both Greek and Macedonian Slavic. The publication was noted in the press as the first of its kind in Greece and as the "end of a taboo",[1] because the songs had not been publicly performed in Greece for decades and had not been previously documented. He claims to have recorded over 1000 songs in the local Slavic dialects.[2]

Novakis is also reported to be a member of the "Centre for Macedonian Culture" in Greece and has been a guest of the "Meeting of refugees from Aegean Macedonia" in Trnovo, Republic of Macedonia.[3] [4] Novakis claims that "The observation of the tradition and the Macedonian folklore have been in his blood since childhood".[2]

[edit] Discography
White field down to the White sea (Avlos Editions) (Λευκός κάμπος πλάι σε θάλασσα λευκή / Бело поле до Белото море)
Rising of the green forest (Avlos Editions) (Πράσινο δάσος / Развила гора зелена)
Offer from Thessaloniki (Avlos Editions) (Πρόσφορα από τη Θεσσαλονίκη / Понуда од Солун)
[edit] Audio samples
Mitko vojvoda (Mitko The Chieftain)
Sulejmanovo (Sulejman's)
Razvila gora zelena (Rising of the green forest)
[edit] Footnotes
^ a b c "Tragoudia - epitelous - me logia!" Elefterotypia, 27 March 2004 [1]
^ a b c Ministry of Culture - Republic of Macedonia, 11 May 2002
^ Greek Member State Committee of EBLUL
^ Makedonsko sonce magazine
[edit] See also
Music of Macedonia
Music of the Republic of Macedonia
Music of Greek Macedonia
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