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Vol. 62, No. 2 Ethnomusicology Summer 2018 Markos Vamvakaris: The Man and the Bouzouki; Autobiography.

Noonie Minogue, ed.

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and trans. 2015. Greeklines.com. xxvii, 289 pp., black-andwhite photographs, song texts, translations, glossary, appendix. Paper, $29.97. In 1969 Angeliki Vellou-Keil undertook a remarkable project.

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In the midst of the Junta, the Dictatorship of the Colonels that controlled Greece from 1967 to 1974, Ms. Vellou-Keil collaborated with Markos Vamvakaris on his autobiography. What made this an extraordinary endeavor was the nature of Mr.

Vamvakaris as a controversial musician, composer, and public figure in Greece. So iconic a character that he was known universally in Greece simply by his first name, Markos was the best-known and quintessential rembetiko musician in Greece.

In the public’s eyes he embodied the lifestyle, music, and lyrical environment of the underworld urban musical tradition known as remb