Rebetika : Songs from the Old Greek Underworld
Bilingual
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
6185048205
ISBN-13
9786185048204
Edition
Bilingual
Publisher
Aiora Press
Imprint
Aiora Press
Country of Manufacture
GR
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 2014
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
194 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 20.60 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Western "classical" musicFolk & traditional music
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Rebetika are urban folk songs of Greece, often compared to the American Blues. The book includes four essays discussing the history and characteristics of the Rebetika songs, lyrics of 54 songs in English translation with parallel Greek text.
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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