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Rebetika - Songs from the Old Greek Underworld (Greek, Paperback, Bilingual edition)
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Rebetika - Songs from the Old Greek Underworld (Greek, Paperback, Bilingual edition)
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The songs in this book are a sampling of the urban folk songs of
Greece during the first half of the 20th century. They are the
creative expression of an urban subculture whose members the Greeks
commonly called rebetes. These rebetes were people living a
marginal and often underworld existence on the fringes of
established society, disoriented and struggling to maintain
themselves in the developing industrial ports, despised and
persecuted by the rest of society. And it is the hardships and
suffering of these people, their fruitless dreams, their current
loves and their lost loves that these songs are about, and
underlying them all, their jaunty, tough will to survive.The appeal
of these songs, often compared to the American blues, is that the
conflicts they express are not exclusively Greek conflicts, they
are everybody's; and they are still unresolved in urban Greece as
in urban Anywhere.
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