Rebetika - Songs from the Old Greek Underworld (Greek, Paperback, Bilingual edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Aiora Press
Country of origin:	Greece
Release date:	June 2014
Editors:	Katharine Butterworth • Sara Schneider
Dimensions:	205 x 130 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
Edition:	Bilingual edition
ISBN-13:	978-6185048204
Languages:	Greek
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Music > Folk music Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Promotions
LSN:	6185048205
Barcode:	9786185048204

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