Abstract
The wretched underworld… does not fail to have its songs and these are — for Greece — the rebetika.Rebetis doesn’t mean underworld, nor is the rebetiko its song.Contradictory statements such as the above are characteristic of the controversy which has surrounded the song tradition loosely called ‘rebetiko’, since it first became a cultural thème du jour in Greece in the late 1940s.
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