There’s a platitude that music is a ‘universal language’, which is in some ways supported.... But this sentiment is also misleading. Each developed craft of music — like rembetika, jazz, blues, bluegrass, punk rock, Hindustani music or Balinese opera or Gregorian chant — is its own language. And to devote yourself to that music means not just to imitate its surface, but to immerse and learn that language.

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Learning my first rembetika:
https://cacorbell.com/2023/09/30/learning-my-first-rembetika/