Rebet Asker in our era
Nowadays-
Rebetiko is the folk song of the period when Greeks have been the productive toiler’s nation. It has been gradually modified since 1955-as all the other west nations-to a nation of consumers, that is a nation which actually consumes more than it can produce. There’s a difference-concerning the scale of values, songs, love, affairs, family matters, education and moral standard-between those who struggle for a living and those who play upon others. De facto it is bread-winner’s right to change the world, while he undoubtedly feels unpriviledged having to feed both himself and the others, in the meantime the consumer gives all in favour of increasing his forever income.
There are toiler societies being sunk into poor passiveness, still waiting for better days, while others have been resisted and that is how modern civilization has been given birth. It was only the folk song of that period that has widely formed this specific bread-winners’ resistance while neither political policies nor the rest types of art have ever contributed in that so called conventional rebetiko.
When bread-winners act they lead both to ”social holocaust” and attempts to build the “differently”in the meantime consumers lead to a constant renounce from essential human attributes, to hypocricy and cretinism.
This is what the Greek inflamed young generation realized right after the 1974 dictatorship. In due time young people try to resist an “overwhelmed fatty lifestyle”-that consumerism has eventually created following at the same time alternative paths. However, this is how young people have started being in contact with the resistant values of previous generations just the time when the revival of rebetiko and modern songs-which are in step with it-take place.
Rebet askers rise through this fluid state in 1990 growing the idea that rebetiko and its corresponding lifestyle, as this of disinterest towards money, the undermining of lower middle-class family standards, the disobedience to propelled social patterns, the imposing way of entertainment, but above all the cultivation of a resistant way of living is the most enjoyable way to have a worthwile life into an increasingly non deserving world. So beyond that close scrutiny of rebetik songs and their successors, their lyrics, biographies and class conflicts concerning the folk song, we keep trying to be faithful to the lifestyle-against all odds-as this is the resistance that grows civilization, anything irrelevant is “consumer bubbles” and develops a bad life.
More over, this is all we can offer to young Fellow-countrymen all around Europe and this is what we want to achieve as rebet askers through our repeated collaborations for years.
Rebetiko is the folk song of the period when Greeks have been the productive toiler’s nation. It has been gradually modified since 1955-as all the other west nations-to a nation of consumers, that is a nation which actually consumes more than it can produce. There’s a difference-concerning the scale of values, songs, love, affairs, family matters, education and moral standard-between those who struggle for a living and those who play upon others. De facto it is bread-winner’s right to change the world, while he undoubtedly feels unpriviledged having to feed both himself and the others, in the meantime the consumer gives all in favour of increasing his forever income.
There are toiler societies being sunk into poor passiveness, still waiting for better days, while others have been resisted and that is how modern civilization has been given birth. It was only the folk song of that period that has widely formed this specific bread-winners’ resistance while neither political policies nor the rest types of art have ever contributed in that so called conventional rebetiko.
When bread-winners act they lead both to ”social holocaust” and attempts to build the “differently”in the meantime consumers lead to a constant renounce from essential human attributes, to hypocricy and cretinism.
This is what the Greek inflamed young generation realized right after the 1974 dictatorship. In due time young people try to resist an “overwhelmed fatty lifestyle”-that consumerism has eventually created following at the same time alternative paths. However, this is how young people have started being in contact with the resistant values of previous generations just the time when the revival of rebetiko and modern songs-which are in step with it-take place.
Rebet askers rise through this fluid state in 1990 growing the idea that rebetiko and its corresponding lifestyle, as this of disinterest towards money, the undermining of lower middle-class family standards, the disobedience to propelled social patterns, the imposing way of entertainment, but above all the cultivation of a resistant way of living is the most enjoyable way to have a worthwile life into an increasingly non deserving world. So beyond that close scrutiny of rebetik songs and their successors, their lyrics, biographies and class conflicts concerning the folk song, we keep trying to be faithful to the lifestyle-against all odds-as this is the resistance that grows civilization, anything irrelevant is “consumer bubbles” and develops a bad life.
More over, this is all we can offer to young Fellow-countrymen all around Europe and this is what we want to achieve as rebet askers through our repeated collaborations for years.