Markos Vamvakaris: The Man and the Bouzouki. Autobiography
Markos Vamvakaris, born in 1905 in Syros was a pioneer of rebetiko, the urban folk music of Greece. The bouzouki was a disreputable instrument but he paved its path to glory. He spent many years, first as a stevedore in the port of Piraeus and then as a butcher in the slaughterhouse. During this time he fell in love with a tigress, his first wife, he learnt to smoke hashish and to play the 'sacred' instrument: 'I had a great passion. My life was all bouzouki. It took me over - but it also took me up in the world, way up ...' This is the first ever translation into English of the autobiography compiled by Angeliki Vellou Keil in 197…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9932633-0-9
- EAN: 9780993263309
- Produktnummer: 31983459
- Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 429 g
- Gewicht: 429
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