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'''Rembetika''' (sometimes transliterated '''rebetika''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] τα ρεμπέτικα) is a kind of popular urban [[Greece|Greek]] music | '''Rembetika''' (sometimes transliterated '''rebetika''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] τα ρεμπέτικα) is a kind of popular urban [[Greece|Greek]] music.<ref>Strictly speaking, rembetika are the individual musical works, rembetiko (Greek: ρεμπέτικο) being the genre, but the plural has come to be the standard form for both.</ref> The musicians were known as rembetes (Greek: ρεμπέτης). | ||
Rembetika has its roots in the late | Rembetika has its roots in two musical traditions of the late nineteenth and early twentith centuries: the music of the urban Greek social fringes (often compared to the [[blues]] sub-culture in the [[United States]] at about the same time), and the [[cafe aman]] (Smyrnaika (or Smyrneika)) of the [[Asia Minor]] cities of [[Smyrna]] and [[Constantinople]]. | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 04:40, 8 April 2007
Rembetika (sometimes transliterated rebetika (Greek τα ρεμπέτικα) is a kind of popular urban Greek music.[1] The musicians were known as rembetes (Greek: ρεμπέτης).
Rembetika has its roots in two musical traditions of the late nineteenth and early twentith centuries: the music of the urban Greek social fringes (often compared to the blues sub-culture in the United States at about the same time), and the cafe aman (Smyrnaika (or Smyrneika)) of the Asia Minor cities of Smyrna and Constantinople.
Notes
- ↑ Strictly speaking, rembetika are the individual musical works, rembetiko (Greek: ρεμπέτικο) being the genre, but the plural has come to be the standard form for both.
Reading
- Gail Holst Road to Rembetika: Music of the Greek Sub-culture. Athens: Denise Harvey, 1975. ISBN 960-7120-07-8
External links
- "Rembetika" — L.H. Kritikos