Meaning of rebetiko | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki.
   countable, uncountable
2. This style of music; such music as a genre.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable

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Examples

“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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