{"product_id":"rebetika","title":"Rebetika - Katharine Butterworth \/ Sara Schneider","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSONGS FROM THE OLD GREEK UNDERWORLD (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ - ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eΑΝΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePreface to the second edition\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForeword\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRebetika\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Music of the Rebetes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Dances of the Rebetes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRebetika and Blues\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollection of Song Lyrics\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMusical Examples\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlossary of Transliterated Words\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSong Index\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"product-attribute-specs-table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePages\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Pages\"\u003e176\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publication Date\"\u003e2015\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publisher\"\u003eΑΙΩΡΑ \/ AIORA\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"ISBN\"\u003e9786185048204\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Binding\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Author\"\u003eKatharine Butterworth \/ Sara Schneider\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Diavazo Greek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40154014843069,"sku":"Rebetika","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/7574\/2397\/products\/rebetika-katharine-butterworth-sara-schneider-1036457.jpg?v=1765467973","url":"https:\/\/checkout.diavazo.co.uk\/products\/rebetika","provider":"Diavazo Greek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}