Katharine Butterworth, Sara Schneider (Hrsg.)

Rebetika

Songs from the old greek underworld, a collection of texts and music

Klappentext:

The songs in this book are a sampling of the urban folk songs of Greece during the first half of the 20th century. They are the creative expression of an urban subculture whose members the Greeks commonly called rebetes. These rebetes were people living a marginal and often underworld existence on the fringes of established society, disoriented and struggling to maintain themselves in the developing industrial ports, despised and persecuted by the rest of society. And it is the hardships and suffering of these people, their fruitless dreams, their current loves and their lost loves that these songs are about, and underlying them all, their jaunty, tough will to survive.

The appeal of these songs, often compared to the American blues, is that the conflicts they express are not exclusively Greek conflicts, they are everybody's; and they are still unresolved – in urban Greece as in urban Anywhere.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Katharine Butterworth is the founder and director for 25 years of "Study in Greece", an accredited college study program for juniors and seniors in Athens, based on contemporary Greek life, and as such the first of its kind. Katharine now lives in California.

With contributions of Markos Dragoumis, Sakis Papadimitriou, Ted Petrides, Elias Petropoulos.

Preis: CHF 19.00
Sprache: Englisch
Art: Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 2014 (1975)
Verlag: Aiora
ISBN: 978-6188-5048-20-4
Masse: 175 S.

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