Greek subculture: music, cinema, youth passtimes
On this page you will find articles written by a group of three students, two French (Joachim and Arwen) and one Greek (Eleftheria). We have discovered Greek subculture, conducted interviews with our fellow students, their teachers, our host families. We wanted to share all our findings with you in order to help you to get to know this part of Greek life better.
Music
Music at preveza school
I musikundervisning lærer de græske elever at fløjte eller spille på metallofon. Det er som i Frankrig, så de synger, men de græske elever spiller flere instrumenter. For eksempel har eleverne lært en sang til at byde os velkommen, sangen blev ledsaget af trommer, guitar, fløjter, bouzouki, metallofon og klaver.
Music teacher
The music teacher plays the piano to accompany her students in the song.
Greek instrument poster
In the music room. There are some typical greek intrusment( lyra, formiks, eoriki kithara, pandouris ).
Welcoming ceremony with some music at school on the day of our arrival
tRADITIONAL AND POPULAR MUSIC
During our stay in Preveza, we noticed that Greek teenage is listening to the same type of music that we do in Frence: rap, pop, light rock ... As in France, the fun of anglo-saxon groups and singers, like Shawn Mendes, Billie Elish or Alec Benjaman. What we found really remarkable is that our Greek partners also like French music and often listen to Kids United, Stromae or Bigflo & Oli. In France we do not have the opportunity to enjoy Greek music, which is extremely pleasant. Fun, we can hear in Greece both traditional and popular music everywhere. In the restaurants, in public transport you can enjoy the traditional tunes. When we with our teen friends listened and we danced to the pop music. Generally, Greek people are very musical and usually sing and dance. They are really happy, energetic people full of joy.
Cinema
CINEMA
In Greece it's like in France there are many Greek movies. But in Preveza there isn't a cinema... Sometimes there is a special room to watch a movie once a month. People in Greece prefer to watch Americain movies. We have conducted an interview in order to find out what our partners' preferences are. Here come the results: in terms of movie types, they watch action in first, comedy in second and horror for thrird. The teenagers watch the following sereies: Games of Thrones, House of Cards and Riverdale. If you want to find out more, have a look at this interview.
What we discovered is that they watch mostly the English subtitled version of American films. We believe that this help them to master English language better.
Aliki Vougioyklaki
Aliki Vougioyklaki is a famous actor in greece but she is dead... in 1996.
Movie by Aliki
POpular movie in greece
youth passtimes
Dance
In preveza there are many dance rooms. People like dance, traditional greek dance or on a pop music... Zumba, latin party... One night in the room a greek student, my friend and me we danced and just danced, it's a funny activity...
Macarena on the beach!
free time
In Greece they don't have much free time because they have extra curriculum activities. But when they have free time they go into the city center and they hang out with their friends.
By, Eleftheria, Arwen and Joachim