The following blog post consists of a contents listing of the important Australian discographical research journal founded and edited by…

This blog post is centered around sound recordings dealing with the life and work of the infamous French writer The…

Part I – Introduction For over forty years, a document has sat in the rebetika song archives of folklorist Elias…

In mid-2019 I contacted Charles Howard, who is a renowned record producer, compiler and collector of rebetiko music. I requested…

When I visited the Barcelona museum of Hash, Marijuana & Hemp in September this year I came across an intriguing…

The following paper was presented as part of the 2019 Sydney Folk Festival on August 17 at the Sydney Mechanics’…

On February 22, 2016 I visited gramophone and record collector Wayne Dempsey at his home in the suburb of Chatswood…

Το «Κούνα, Μπέμπη» – πούστικο ρεμπέτικο της φυλακής “Kouna, Bebi” – homosexual rebetiko song from the prisons On 17/7/1973, folklorist…

In 1972, the Greek folklorist Elias Petropoulos was awarded a seven month jail sentence for publishing the world’s first dictionary…