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

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

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