Buy this book on-line Holst,Gail : Road to Rembetika : Music of a Greek Sub-cultureDenise Harvey, Limni,Evvia,Greece, 1994 ISBN 9607120078
The rembetika, songs that were sung in the poor quarters of Smyrna, Istanbul and the ports of Greece in the late nineteenth century, and became the popular bouzouki music of the 1930s to 1950s, have many parallels with American blues. Like the blues, the rembetika were the music of outsiders, who developed their own slang and their own forms of expression. Road to Rembetika was the first book in English to attempt a general survey of the world of the 'rembetes' who smoked hashish and danced the passionate introspective zebekiko to release their emotions. The author Gail Holst, an Australian musician and writer who first came to Greece in 1965 and who has continued to perform and write about Greek music ever since, describes her own initiation into the rembetika, outlines its historical and sociological background, its musical characteristics and instrumentation. The second part of the book is a collection of rembetika songs in Greek with the English translation en face. The text is illustrated with photographs of the period, musical examples and original manuscripts of the songs. " the most vibrant portrayal of this musical genreThe rise of rebetika in the Greek underworld in the early years of this century"181p.illus.discography, bibliography, index Author inscription on title page. Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: French Wraps Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Holst,Gail : Road to Rembetika : Music of a Greek Sub-culture. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, antiquarian books, first editions, livres illustrées and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |