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

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

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

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

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

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

The following is a translation that I have made from a chapter in Elias Petropoulos’ ‘Rebétika Songs: A Folkloric Study’, … More

Today I visited the old Columbia Records factory in the Athens suburb of Rizoupoli [Ριζούπολη]. The first of its kind … More