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Nikos Politis - "The Zeibekiko dance" - Istanbul Musical Seminars - October 2005 |
 | | The Zeibekiko was born in the twentieth century and, what is more, it is an urban dance, not originally known in the rural regions where the “genuine” folk dances are expected to be at home. |
| | The explanation is obvious: before the military and political events of the beginning of the 20th century, that dramatically changed the ethnic map of the area as well as the relations of our two countries, contacts between islands and the neighbouring Turkish coast were very common and cultural influences natural. |
| | As already indicated the Zeibekiko dance, together with Hassapiko, the other well known dance of today’s Greece, is typical of the Rebetiko era, that has indelibly stamped our musical history from the moment it started, beginning of the 1930s, until the late 1950s where its creative period stops, with the dances living on until today. |
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