rebetika

By the early '30s, Keromytis took it pro in Piraeus, ultimately gaining acclaim for his rebetika (acoustic blues) and laïkó (pop music) techniques.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 202 Phil Ramone 2011

Later, I'll try to look up this possible theme in rebetika and Sefardi traditions and Arabic language songs, too--all great poetry.

Songs of Disrobing and Exploration (youTube Homework Helper) Fresca 2009

"Smyrna endures today," his narrator, Cal Stephanides, tells us, "in a few rebetika songs and a stanza from The Waste Land."

The Gender Blender 2007

He entertained an ephemeral image of himself, liberated from his grotesque folds of lard, singing bawdy rebetika in the brothels of Athens, swigging kokkinelli and charming the young girls.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

There was no gambling, no potted palms, but there was rebetika and, on many nights, hashish.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

At night he listened to his rebetika records in the attic and smoked his hookah pipe.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Smyrna endures today in a few rebetika songs and a stanza from The Waste Land:

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

For her, the song conjured only the disreputable bars her brother went to down in the city, those hash dens where they played rebetika and American music and where there were loose women who sang .

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Where there was rebetika music there was always hashish.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Stylianos (Stelios) Kazantzides was one of the leading vocalists of late rebetika and laika from 1955 through the 60s and beyond.

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