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Greek Political Song: Get up, Stand up, Sing Out for Your Rights

Maria Paravantes — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:37:00 +0000

Inside Greek political and resistance song: Greeks have always chosen to be deeply political even if this is only in music and in verse.

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Greek Song Stories: ‘Makria Mou Na Fygeis’

Maria Paravantes — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:01:00 +0000

Modest and low key, Greece's Kostas Virvos was one of the most influential songwriters of the rebetiko-laiko era. In 1944, he was arrested for writing slogans on walls.

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Dimitris Mitropanos: Greece’s Diamond in the Rough

Maria Paravantes — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 +0000

Mitropanos will live on though his songs, which will continue to speak to the hearts of Greeks and friends of Greeks far and wide. And that, my friends, is true immortality.

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