The author PETROS TSOLAKIS guides us through the discography of rebetiko and more specifically, by examining the recorded musical material, he explores how the rebetiko song, with the central pillar of the recorded work of Markos Vamvakaris, during the 1930s sheds the central elements that fuel negative social symbolism and the representation that has been projected onto it by the public discourse of the time.

The main reason for this shedding is his involvement in the recording mechanism and the subsequent widespread popularity and response that it experiences. By giving voice to the music and the lyrics, he attempts to describe the evolution of the repertoire over the course of the decade and its symbolic direction, as well as to identify their correlation with the entry and permanence of the genre in the record industry.

Happy reading! The editing of the book was done by Nikos Dionysopoulos.