Rèbètica
Around 1920 started the poor people of the Greek community songs to sing of a special type. It were melanchonic songs with varia of topics: love, poverty, prison, the underworld...and concerned the lowest social class of population. These songs had been known as Rebetiko and knew a popularity in the period of the Greek civil war (1946-49). After 1950 all Greeks sang these songs. The day of today these songs componeered no longer become.
The origine of Rebetiko much older. Round in the middle of 1800 this the songs of the underground were. To app. 1920 these were only sung in the underworld. This subculture a segment of the lowest social class of the population in Greece was.
These people were known as Rebetes or mangas. They lived outside the rules of the traditional community. Rebetes e.g.. , smoked hasjish did not marry, helped the underdog, hated police force and arrived this way in the prison.
The cradle of the Rebetiko was born in prison and in the hasj-pubs where them in silence with a hoarse voice the one vers after the other sang. There was no refrain and the melody was simple. The one Rebetes accompanied the other with baglama or bouzouki whereas another stood up and danced.