Nisiotika

Nisiotika
Music of Greece
General topics
AncientByzantineNéo kýmaPolyphonic song
Genres
EntehnoDimotikaHip hopLaïkoPunkRock
Specific forms
Classical • NisiotikaRebetikoSkiladiko
Media and performance
Music awards Arion Awards • MAD Video Music Awards • Pop Corn Music Awards
Music charts Greek Albums Chart • Foreign Albums Chart • Singles Chart
Music festivals Thessaloniki Song Festival
Music media Difono • MAD TV (MAD World, Blue)MTV Greece
National anthem "Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas Cyprus
Regional styles Aegean Islands • Arcadia • Argos • Crete • Cyclades • Dodecanese Islands • EpirusIonian Islands • Lesbos • Macedonia • PeloponneseThessalyThrace

Nisiotika (Greek: νησιώτικα) is the name of the dances of Greek islands including a variety of Greek styles, played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.

Nisiotika, has a well known folk dance tradition, which comes from the dances of ancient Greece like: Syrtos, Kalamatianos and Sousta. The lyre is the dominant folk instrument and other like klarino, violin, askomandoura with Greek characteristics vary widely. In the Aegean, the violin and the Cretan lyra are very widespread Greek musical instruments. Famous representative musicians and performers of Nisiotika include: Mariza Koch as credited with reviving the field in the 1970s, Yiannis Parios, Domna Samiou, the Konitopouloi family: including Giorgos Konitopoulos, Vangelis Konitopoulos, Eirini Konitopolou, Nasia and Stella Konitopoulou and other.

There are also, prominent elements of Cretan music on the Dodecanese Islands and Cyclades.


Greek folk dances of Nisiotika include:


Nisiotika is a significant aspect of Greek culture, both within Greece and in the diaspora.

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