Les captations audiovisuelles dans les performances rituelles : le cas de l’improvisation poétique chantée à Ólympos

This contribution focuses on the place of recording technologies in the ritual performance of poetic improvisation sung during the glénti in Ólympos, a village of the island of Kárpathos, in Greece. It is based on an ethnography of the musical practice and is interested in the various live recordings of this glénti and the use made of it through their dissemination. These recordings are made by the villagers constituting archives for the community, but also by foreigners making a holiday memory. They are widely broadcast on the internet, on community radio stations or on YouTube. The Olympiotes see it as a means of transmitting their heritage to expatriate nationals, making it at the same time accessible to foreigners.