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Lovers of Rebetika - Athens 1939 - 1944

Lovers of Rebetika - Athens 1939 - 1944

FromLovers of Rebetika


Lovers of Rebetika - Athens 1939 - 1944

FromLovers of Rebetika

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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
May 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week we once again delve into the music of Rebetiko and it's historical context on how it shaped the musical landscape of Greece for ever.
Rebetiko is basically an umbrella term, comprising several forms of music that evolved in Greece and Greek speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire during the mid and late 19th century, until they unified in the early 20th century to form the distinctive sound that is associated with the rebetiko today.
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Released:
May 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (45)

This podcast will delve into the world of Rebetika, each week your host Con Kalamaras will have a new episode covering this genre. Rebetiko is story telling spanning love, loss, drugs, and heart-breaking refugee tales. Rebetiko has always been the music of the poor and the dispossessed, combining different musical styles of the region and with lyrics describing the joy, the sorrow, and the difficulties of everyday life. Often called the Greek blues, like the blues, it grew out of a specific urban subculture and reflected the harsh realities of an oppressed subculture's lifestyle.