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και: Βασιλικά (Τα).

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I will read this

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Simon have you seen this topic on rebetiko-like poems? Κώστας Βλησίδης: Τα «βλάμικα» και «ρεμπέτικα» τραγούδια της λογιοσύνης

The topic of Seferis and his occasional contact with bouzouki music which he never liked, comes up again and again in the book “ο Ασιάτης Σεφέρης”, by Άκης Γαβριηλίδης. Gavriilidis concludes that Seferis who liked the rural traditions could never reconcile himself with the urban music of bouzouki.

Bouzouki is more universally embraced by the generation coming of age during the war and occupation, the generation of Theodorakis and Hadjidakis. There is a scene in the last novel of the trilogy Χρονικό μιας σταυροφορίας by Ρόδης Ρούφος where Athenian university students in resistance groups in North East Greece meet at some time after the liberation and before the full-on civil war, and one of them dances hasapiko.

The trilogy is probably not the greatest set of novels out there, more interesting for the politics it captures, and the shift of the author himself, from the anticommunism of the first book, the critical attitude towards the british liaison officers embedded in the resistance in the second book, to the disappointment with the nationalist leadership by the third book

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Hello Kalimera, thank you all!

i found this, in german and EL:

this was a mistake of the translater deepl. i knew her, she lived in Vasilika

everybody knows this :wink:

thank you, yes, because of this post i had my idea to ask about literature here in this forum

thank you, i will ask Jorgo Tzortzis, he made a CD with Skaribas poetry

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Back to the 30s generation of writers, and a better novel, “Στου Χατζηφράγκου” by Κοσμάς Πολίτης. It’s something he wrote for the 40 years from 1922 and it is a Joyce style evocation of Smyrna the way it was at the beginning of the 20th century, with only one chapter going forward to the disaster in the aftermath of the war. Musically there are a couple of references to songs, “Της λέω 'βραιοπούλα γίνεσαι χριστιανή” and “Τα παιδιά της γειτονιάς σου με πειράζουνε”. The one hero who is a musician is very much made up by the author, for the purposes of the plot he wanted a jewish person who was not a typical sefardi jew but a greek speaker, so that he could have him live in the greek quarter instead of the jewish one.

Evcharisto para poly

Last sunday i sung five songs in Gouves Kastri, Evvia. From Markos and Zorz. And “apo kato ap tis tomates”. And Koutsavaki, omg.
With Tzortzis and Stathis Theodorou from Istiea and a man called Jannis from Oreoi. In a tavern, directly at the beach.

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Όταν ταξίδευα νωρίτερα από τις Γούβες στο Καστρί, παρατήρησα τις πινακίδες και τελικά τις στρατιωτικές βάσεις, που είχε χτίσει εκεί ο Μεταξάς και όπου ήταν σταθμευμένοι οι Ναζί. Έχω ακούσει ιστορίες από Έλληνες για εκείνες τις τρομερές εποχές.

Ξέρω μερικά ρεμπέτικα (αναμνήσεις) από την κατοχή.

Ποιες Γούβες και ποιο Καστρί;

North Evvia, 15 km from Vasilika

I hope what Dimi here wrote is right. I never heard about killed greek people in Gouves. May be near Gouves in the mountains? I don’t know.

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