Rebetiko
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Rebetiko, plural rebetika, occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used to designate previously disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process o
Rebetes in the Karaiskaki Square, Piraeus (1933)
Dimitrios Semsis (violin), Agapios Tomboulis (oud) and Roza Eskenazi (voice), the Smyrna Trio (Athens, 1932)
Trixordo or three course (three double string) bouzouki
Mangas
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Manges, also known as koutsavakides, is the name of a social group in the Belle Époque era's counterculture of Greece. The nearest English equivalents to the term "mangas" is wide boy, spiv or chav.
Rebetiko
…is closely related with nightlife entertainment: ouzeri, taverna (Greek tavern) and night centres. Rebetiko is also sometimes related with the icon of mangas (Greek: μάγκας, pronounced ), which means strong guy that "needs correction", a social group in the Belle Époque era's counterculture of Greece (especially…
A mangas holding a komboloi