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Love and Carnations: recordings of drag artists of Barcelona (1920s-1930s)

This blog post came about as the result of my interest in queer-themed recordings from the 78rpm era, an Australian … More

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Mike Sutcliffe’s Australian Record & Music Review – Contents Listing

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

Chasing De Sadeian Sound Recordings

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

From the archives: the personal health records of Kostas Nouros

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

Kostas Nouros’s “Ouzo” – newly discovered take

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

Hashish in Piraeus – by Francis Carco (1935)

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

The Boomerang Did Come Back: A Presentation of Musical Aboriginalia

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

Gil Dech & other early gay Oz recording artists

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

“Kouna, Bebi” – homosexual rebetiko song from the prisons

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

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