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In the shadowed taverns and smoky tekédes of early 20th-century Greece, a sound emerged that would come to define an era of displacement, sorrow, defiance, and deep communal memory. This sound was Rebetiko, a form of Greek urban music born from exile, war, poverty, and cultural hybridity. It was the voice of the marginalized, the music of the mángas and aláni , whose lives unfolded outside the boundaries of respectability, yet within the rich and unruly heart of a reshaped