Rembetika
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Rembetika (sometimes transliterated rebetika (Greek τα ρεμπέτικα) is a kind of popular urban Greek music often compared to the American blues.[1] The musicians were known as rembetes (Greek: ρεμπέτης).
Rembetika has its roots in the late-nineteenth-century music of the Greek community in Smyrna.
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