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'''Rembetika''' (sometimes transliterated '''rebetika''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] τα ρεμπέτικα) is a kind of popular urban [[Greece|Greek]] music often compared to the [[United States|American]] [[blues]].<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''' (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-nineteenth-century music of the Greek community in [[Smyrna]].
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]].


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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

  1. 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

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