Author: Mark Hamilton
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Kakia Mendri, Marianthaki
Rebetiko was not just the musical and poetic expression of the Greek urban underclasses:…
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Nikos Brachnas: Down by the priest’s jetty
If you search Nikos Brachnas on YouTube, you may find a series of videos…
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Heard it in a love song
Classic era rebetiko is sometimes “romanticized as manges, outlaws, hash dens and alluring females,”…
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Sotiria Bellou & Spyros Efstathiou, The boyfriend
Spyros Efstathiou was a noted musician who emerged in the aftermath of the Second…
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Spyros Zagoraios, God, why did you make us?
Spyros Zagoraios was one of the best-loved singers in Greece beginning in the 1950s,…
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Yiannis Kyriazis, The sucker
Yiannis Kyriazis emerged as a performer late in rebetiko’s classic age, had a long…
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Coming to grips with rebetiko
I have – not surprisingly – an incomplete understanding of rebetiko, which is down…
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Ouzo, ouzo, all the ouzo
Think Greece. White and blue buildings. Sandy beaches. Bouzouki music. Salads topped with with…
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Ilias Markantonis, The refugee
Every once in a while, I’ll come across a new-to-me artist on YouTube who…
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The song so nice…
…they recorded it four times, under different names, with different lyrics. That was the…
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