Laboratory Teaching Staff
Tel.: 2681050149
email: tserikis@uoi.gr
Scientific field: Sociology and Music.
Courses: Classical Guitar, Electric Bass – Double Bass, Ensembles.
Panos Tserikis has apprenticed for more than twenty years in several musical environments and genres. His activity ranges from a player in modern music improvisation focused bands, to a symphony orchestra musician (double bass), as well as a music teacher (guitar, bass, theory, modern harmony). He holds a diploma in composition and a soloist diploma on classical guitar.
Having also studied sociology, he turned to the systematic investigation of music-society relationships. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the Department of Musicology of the Ionian University in the sociology of music. The theoretical part of the dissertation dealt with the epistemology of the conceptual approach of the musical phenomenon while the case study concerned the ‘entehno laiko’ (art pop) song. Philosophy, social sciences, cultural studies, popular studies, aesthetics and critical theory were the premises on which a ‘sociology of entehno laiko song’ were based upon.
He has conducted ethnomusicological research in the areas of Ioannina and Argyrokastro in order to record the differentiation of the common cultural tradition in the conditions of mass culture on the one hand and socialist realism on the other.
Through distance education he has attended courses at the University of California – San Diego (Learning), Berklee (Improvisation), Stanford (Social Network Analysis) and Panteion University (Educational Policy). He has also completed B1 and B2 level training programs, created by I.T.Y.E. – “Diofantos” in collaboration with the I.E.P., for the Pedagogical and Didactic Utilization of the New Information and Communication Technologies. Furthermore he has been posting educational scenarios on the Digital Teaching Scenario Platform of the Institute of Educational Policy “Aesop” and supports the educational website “koinoniografia”.
His teaching career involves being employed at the Department of Music Studies of the School of Philosophy of University of Athens history of Greek song as an instructor while in the context of postdoctoral research activity at the Academy of Sciences of Tirana he conducted field research, bibliographic research and qualitative interviews for the reconstruction, visualization and analysis of the social networks of the organ-playing Vilayet of Epirus.
Research issues related to the philosophical and sociological perspectives of music, the classification systems and the struggles for their control, the epistemology of the conceptual approaches of the music phenomenon, the formation of musicians’ social networks, the formation of musical taste, contemporary music practices, the transformation of the educational act in the conditions of explosive dissemination of information, the new orality and the challenges of the digital future, the course of modernity in Greece as it is embedded in the aesthetic forms, in their use and their interpretation.
His publications are accessible at:
https://lastamp.academia.edu/PanosTserikis.