Abstract

This autoethnographic text details the author’s reflections on his own positionality and process in researching and publishing a zine in the emerging and contested field of queer rebetology. By using the archive as a means for scholarly and creative interventions in the Greek urban music genre of rebetika, the author draws attention to the process of erasure that has occurred in discourses surrounding the genre’s queer exponents, sites of performance and subcultures. The author’s position as a second-generation Greek-Australian in exploring these histories is framed as a “queering back” to the dominant discourses produced in Greece by local researchers and writers. It is argued that this distance to Greece “proper” allows the author the privilege and vantage point from which to explore the queer elements of a music genre that has now become entangled in the normative, nationalist and homophobic discourses of the modern Greek nation-state.

摘要

这本民族志文本详细介绍了作者在研究和出版新兴和有争议的酷儿反叛学领域的杂志时对自己的立场和过程的反思。通过使用档案作为对希腊城市音乐流派 rebetika 进行学术和创造性干预的一种手段，作者提请注意在围绕该流派的酷儿指数、表演场所和亚文化的话语中发生的擦除过程。作者作为第二代希腊裔澳大利亚人在探索这些历史时的立场被描述为对当地研究人员和作家在希腊产生的主流话语的“古怪回归”。