Is rebetiko ultimately a folk song? Is it a song of the lumpen or of the working classes? Does it promote drugs? How does it portray women? Was it sung by the bourgeoisie or by workers? What is its trajectory alongside the labor movement?

Rebetiko is intertwined with the journey and evolution that encapsulates the lives of female and male workers, all the people of toil in urban centers, in cities, from the emergence of the first small sectors of the proletariat in the geographical areas where Greeks live.

Stefanos Loukas's study answers everything about the song that has been so beloved by the people, but also so relentlessly pursued by the ruling class.