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New. Size: 0x0x0; Appears as new and unread. Includes rembetika (without the music) in Greek with English translation and indexes. Rembetika, the music which began in the jails and hashish-dens of Greek towns and became the popular bouzoujd music of the 30â? ? s, 40â? ? s and 50â? ? s, has many parellels with American blues. Like the blues, the rembetika songs were the soul music of a group of people who felt themselves to be outside the niainstream of society, who developed their own slang and their own forms of expression. â? ? Road to Rembetikaâ? ? is the first book in English to attempt a general survey of the world of the â? ? rembetsâ? ? , who smoked hashish while they played the bouzouki and danced the passionate â? ? zembekikoâ? ? to release their emotions. It is an enthusiastic introduction to the subject, written by an Australian musician who first came to Greece in 1965 and has been interested in Greek music ever since. Gail Holst describes her own initiation into rembetika, outlines its historical and sociological background, its musical characteristics and instrumentation. The second part of the book is a collection of rembetika songs translated into English The text is illustrated with photographs of the period, musical examples and original manuscripts of the songs. â? ? Road to Rembetika is one of the best introductions to the music, the people and the period that produced it. Written with love and scholarly care it maintains a balance between historic and musical accuracy and human interest. â? ? â? ? Antigone Kefala in Nation Review 181 pages.
