Music: Turkish zeybeks and Greek zeibekiko

Greek Rebetika Songs
A collection of songs with the legendary composers and players
Vasilis Tsistanis, Giannis Papaionaou and others


Vasilis Tsitsanis 2nd with the Bouzouki

Biography


Giannis Papaioanou 3rd with his Bouzouki

Rebetiko
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Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek ρεμπέτικο and ρεμπέτικα respectively) is the name for a type of urban Greek music.

Rebetika were the songs of the Greek underworld, sung by the so-called rebetes (Greek: ρεμπέτης). Rebetes were unconventional people who lived outside the social order. They first appeared after the Greek War of Independence of 1821.

The songs, often compared to genres like American blues, are full of grief, passion, romance, and bitterness. They are generally melancholic songs telling of the misfortunes of simple ordinary men. Many early rebetic songs were about drugs, especially Hashish which led Rebetiko to be criminalized. Not until 1947, when Manos Hadjidakis indtroduced Rebetika to the upper classes, were these songs accepted as a music style. Damianakos Stathis noted that the rebetic songs of the first period were mostly the singing expression of lumpenproletariat. A lot of the rebetika songs are for dancing. Nearly half are zeibekiko, the remainder are hasapiko.



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