Rebetika : songs from the old Greek underworld / edited by Katharine Butterworth & Sara Schneider ; illustrations by Khronis Botsoglou.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Athens : Aiora, c2014.Edition: Second editionDescription: 173 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9786185048204

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DDC classification:

782.42162893

Contents:

Preface to the second edition -- Foreword -- Rebetika -- The Music of the Rebetes -- The Dances of the Rebetes -- Rebetika and Blues -- Collection of Song Lyrics -- Musical Examples -- Glossary of Transliterated Words -- Song Index -- Contributors.

Summary: "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." -- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	782.42162893 REB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010919

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Includes index.

"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." -- Publisher's description.

Song lyrics in Modern Greek with parallel English translation.