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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(music) A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki..
I need another player to put a Greek melody over the top, perhaps a rebetiko of some sort.
At the time, these earliest songs of the rebetika tradition were a symptom and a particular manifestation of a wider climate of violence, criminality and despair, whether real or imagined, that permeated the Greek capital around the turn of the century.
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Rebetiko means (music) A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki..
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I need another player to put a Greek melody over the top, perhaps a rebetiko of some sort.
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