What is "rebetika"

Usage examples of "rebetika".

For her, the song conjured only the disreputable bars her brother went to down in the city, those hash dens where they played rebetika and American music and where there were loose women who sang .

There was no gambling, no potted palms, but there was rebetika and, on many nights, hashish.

At night he listened to his rebetika records in the attic and smoked his hookah pipe.