Rebetiko or "Outlaw Blues" of hash dens, brothels, & prisons


Rebetiko is the underground musical predecessor of the bouzouki-driven Greek music commonly associated with tourist entertainment. Emerging in Greece at the turn of the 20th century, rebetiko developed within marginal spaces such as hash dens, brothels, prisons, and cabarets, and reflected the lives of social outcasts known as "manges".