Category: Musical thoughts
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Morocco and women: rebetiko tales
An odd thing happened to the Greek music that had grown from rebetiko in…
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The player is the thing: Instrumental rebetiko
Rebetiko re-releases and compilation albums tend to concentrate on singers and composers – rightfully…
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The old man & I want a princess
She wants an old man to marry. He wants a princess from Morocco. And…
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About that word rebetiko
This was interesting: while researching a song the other day, I came across a…
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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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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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The song so nice…
…they recorded it four times, under different names, with different lyrics. That was the…
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Dancing zeibekiko
We don’t often associate early rebetiko with dance music but – to a degree…
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The Manges Don’t Exist Anymore
I used to have the vague idea that rebetiko died somewhere around 1954 and…
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