{"id":5610,"date":"2015-10-12T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T21:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/the-politics-of-the-greek-music-press\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T21:42:53","slug":"the-politics-of-the-greek-music-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/the-politics-of-the-greek-music-press\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics Of The Greek Music Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/eb\/Robert_Trujillo_live_in_London_2008-09-15.jpg\/170px-Robert_Trujillo_live_in_London_2008-09-15.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The politics of writing of the Greek Music Press during the 1980s and  1990s, was the outcome of the local music distribution deals. For  instance the fact that a record store owner was running a magazine and  had agreements with a German label, led him to &#8220;push&#8221; articles that  mainly promote German bands. Sometimes I am in temptation to use a  scientific method such as content analysis of the magazines articles  just to support my argument.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>However, the problem is that the &#8220;lobby-<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">stic&#8221;  style of journalism affected the local sales and the US or UK scene  which remained in the shadow of  the German bands that conquered the  Greek market. On personal level I like many German artists but I would  prefer a more democratic access to the available music. The limited  awareness of UK and US bands in Greece also affected the &#8220;education&#8221; of  the Greek fans since most of them that were teenagers in the 1980s,  appreciated genres such as Thrash Metal but hated Glam\/Hair Metal  because it was out of the journalistic sight of the Greek Press.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span><span><span class=\"UFICommentBody\"><span>The  Southern suburbs of Athens such as Glyfada or Nea Smyrni were full of  kiosks with imported Press and music magazines from US and UK. As a  matter of fact, these two areas became more open minded towards melodic  rock because they had access to the foreign music Press. The awareness  of new music knowledge from UK and US in Glyfada and Nea Smyrni,  generated a new wave of melodic rock bands like Raw Silk or Spitfire.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fa\/Posidonos.jpg\/250px-Posidonos.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"182\" height=\"112\" \/><br \/><em>Glyfada City<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The politics of writing of the Greek Music Press during the 1980s and 1990s, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}