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Miserlou: an Egyptian girl conquers America, Greek Song Music

The song Miserlou or Misirlou is among the most well known songs of the Greek American community. Whatever its ultimate origins - whether Arabic, Turkish or Greek - it became one of the most belove...  
 
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CRONALDO4EV (3 days ago) Show Hide
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the character of byzantium was not european at all!..every tradition plus th music were heavily influenced by the Middle Eastern ones..
FrankCoffman (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Thanks for this video with different versions of Misirlou.
politexnitis4 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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1940 ορ 1927?
Gutsyndicate (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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This song has Islamic/ Middle Eastern influences. remember Greek was colonized by Ottoman empire.
papagamias (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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@Gutsyndicate Everyone knows this is heavily influenced by middle eastern music but this has nothing to do with Ottomans.

Remember that Asia had been colonised by Greeks before any Ottomans came into history. The 1 of the 3 main styles of Byzantine music too was very "eastern Minor Asian - north Middle Eastern" too. A part of Arabic music was inflluenced by Byzantine one. Some specific styles of Arabic music (mainly nowadays saved in Morroco-Algeria for some reason I ignore) are 100% Byzantium.
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Actually, this is music from Minor Asia where the Greeks have coexisted with the Turkish for much longer than other grek areas.
delicious2323 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Youtube ? How can we give 6 stars to this ?
wolfsd24 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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vobero anevasma h ektelesis einai pan paleais kai an fantasis oti exoyn ftasi mexris to Soundtrack tou Pulp Fiction kai to 'Pump It' ton black eyes peas
sixaritiria para poli kali doulia !!!
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Nice lol, the only Miserlou that i knew of was the
Pulp Fiction Soundtrack, and i knew it originated form an old Greek Classic, but this is quite surprising, i didnt expect sumthing like this :)
saltadoros08 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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mia aigyptiopoula sti n ellada...

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