Rembitika

Year Published: 1983

Creator: De Montignie (Philippe) and Rosenbaum (Zelda)

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Introduces Rembitika, the often-melancholy music brought to Greece after the 1921 tragedy at Smyrna, Turkey and the subsequent Greek and Turkish exchange of minority religious groups. Presents the music being performed by master musicians and by contemporary groups, who have adopted past performers' styles or added new interpretations of the bousouki-accompanied songs.