Mavronoros, Ioannina
Mavronoros (Greek: Μαυρονόρος) is a village and a community of the Pogoni municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Ano Kalamas, of which it was a municipal district. The 2021 census recorded 46 residents in the village. The community of Mavronoros covers an area of 5.805 km.
Mavronoros is among the villages of Epirus that display a distinct tradition in polyphonic singing. Today most of the local inhabitants live in the Greek urban centers as well as abroad. Some of them return to Mavronoros during the holiday seasons. In terms of folk music and dancing the village is known for its own style which is different from the typical "Parakalamos style" performed in the Pogoni region. As such, although administratively part of the municipality of Pogoni, Mavronoros and its inhabitants are regarded by certain performers in Pogoni as connected to Cham Albanians.
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References
- ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
- ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
- ^ "ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΥ ΑΫΛΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΑΣ ΗΠΕΙΡΩΤΙΚΟ ΠΟΛΥΦΩΝΙΚΟ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙ" (PDF). Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ Maher, Nicola (2019). The Crying Clarinet: Emotion and Music in Parakalamos (PDF) (Thesis). University of Cardiff. pp. 117–119.
Mavronoros is now a sparsely populated village, with a large proportion of its former inhabitants now living in Greek cities or abroad. It is only in the holiday seasons like Easter and the summer period that the village is once again full of life. The result of this is that some of the younger members of the community have actually never lived in Mavronoros outside of the holiday periods.
- ^ Maher, Nicola (2019). The Crying Clarinet: Emotion and Music in Parakalamos (PDF) (Thesis). University of Cardiff. pp. 117–119.
When the villager joined our conversation, I was surprised when the Tsamidhes were mentioned. The Tsamidhes (gr. Τσάμηδες) are a supposedly Albanian ethnic group from Tsamouria (gr. Τσαμουριά), an area now located in Thesprotia in Greek Epiros (see Green 2005: 15, 74-78). I was aware that there was an ethnic group known as the Tsamidhes as I had read about them in Green's (2005) book. But, I was not expecting to come across them during the course of my research. The villager's assertion that the Tsamidhes from Mavronoros prefer a different style of playing to the inhabitants of other local villages became a theme during my fieldwork period (see below). For Dimitris, the community that constitutes 'our part of Pogoni' does not include the inhabitants of Mavronoros. These people do not contribute to the Parakalamos style as they are not from 'here'. In this case, it is the fact that the Tsamidhes are identified as outsiders, as belonging to another place, that means that they are not 'qualified' to participate in the creation of the community style. What would be their stylistic contribution to 'Parakalamos music' remains marginalised and is labelled as 'other', as the 'Mavronoros style'
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