{"id":1665,"date":"2011-07-24T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:54:09","slug":"rembetika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Re(m)betika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon the 1988 documentary &#8220;Music of the Outsiders&#8221; on YouTube. Here&#8217;s the first of seven magnificent parts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_nOoZCGtd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been entangled with re[m]betika since&#8230; well, when? I suppose I first heard of the genre as &#8216;rebetika&#8217; about 30 years or so ago, but my taste for Greek music goes back much further, to the early 1950s when I used to listen to Greek and Armenian music on AM radio. When I was in college in the early 1960s I had a few Greek records, most notably the Folkways &#8220;Songs and Dances of Greece&#8221; (1953, and a mix of &#8216;folk&#8217; and urban styles, but without the disreputable rebetika, or the Levantine smyrnaica). I got Gail Holst&#8217;s <b>Road to Rembetika<\/b> (1975) in 1980 or so, and in the early 1980s I bought a lot of vinyl reissues of rebetika 78s, and a mountain of CD reissues once the material started to appear in that format. I also got my hands on the Costas Ferris film &#8220;Rembetiko&#8221; (1984)  Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpYyaipU2qg&#038;feature=player_detailpage#t=13s\">this bit for the flavor<\/a>, and this too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXJQmTSptCc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> and I&#8217;ve collected books and articles more or less systematically. Being unable to read or understand Greek is the main stumbling block to further development &#8211;there&#8217;s only so much that translations of lyrics can tell you, especially when their language is nuanced argot. But I have thousands, literally, of MP3s, and there&#8217;s a fine array of video on YouTube&#8230; and Spotify has tons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon the 1988 documentary &#8220;Music of the Outsiders&#8221; on YouTube. Here&#8217;s the first of seven magnificent parts: I&#8217;ve been entangled with re[m]betika since&#8230; well, when? I suppose I first heard of the genre as &#8216;rebetika&#8217; about 30 years or so ago, but my taste for Greek music goes back much further, to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}