Road to Rembetika : Music of a Greek Sub-culture by Holst,Gail - 2006

Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2014-01-07. 5th. paperback. Used: Good.

Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2014-01-07. 5th. paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Denise Harvey (Publisher), January 2014. Paper Back. New.

Limni:: Denise Harvey,. Near Fine. 2006. Paperback. 9607120078 . Fourth edition (paperback). Near fine in pictorial wraps. .

Evia Greece: Denise Harvey, 1994. Soft cover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very large softcover, heavy stiff wrappers with flaps, brown background with photo of musicians on front, 181 pages, many illustrations including full-page. Tiny black spots at top front right and near bottom front edge and tip. Near Very Good.

Attica Editions, 1994. Paperback. New. 5th edition. 181 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Limni,Evvia,Greece: Denise Harvey, 1994 Book. As New. French Wraps. Inscribed by Author(s). Reprint.. 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… Read More

Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2014-01-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!