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Laïkó ( λαϊκό τραγούδι ' song of the people ' or αστική λαϊκή μουσική ' urban folk music '), also known today as classic laïkó ( κλασικό / παλιό λαϊκό ).
It is the urban music of Greece that emerged by the creation of Greek music culture as rebetiko in the 20th century, and has taken many styles over the years.
Until the 1930s the Greek Discography was dominated by two musical genres: the Greek folk music ( demotiká ) and the Elafró tragoudi ( literally: " light song ").
The latter was the Greek version of the international urban music of the era.
Classic laïkó as it is known today, was the mainstream popular music of Greece during the 60s and 70s.
Laïkó was dominated by singers such as Grigoris Bithikotsis, Marinella, Stelios Kazantzidis, Panos Gavalas and others.
Among the most significant songwriters and lyricists of this period are considered George Zambetas, Manolis Hiotis and Vassilis Tsitsanis ; of course the big names of this kind are still in Greek business.
The more cheerful version of laïkó, called elafró laïkó ( ελαφρολαϊκό-elafrolaïkó ' light laïkó ') and it was often used in musicals during the Golden Age of Greek cinema.
Contemporary laïkó ( σύγχρονο λαϊκό ), also called Modern laïkó, is currently Greece's mainstream music genre.
Some of the strongest Greek dances and rhythms of today's Greek music culture laïká are Nisiotika, Syrta, Hasapika, Kalamatiana, zeibekiko, syrtaki and Greek belly dance and the most of them are set to music by the Greek instrumental bouzouki.
So, on the one hand there is the homogenized Greek popular song, with all the idioms of traditional Greek folk music, and on the other, the peculiar musical trends of the urban rebetiko ( song of the cities ) known also in Greece as αστικό.

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