Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Greek Cultural Resources
Meletios Pouliopoulos, independent scholar, historian and archivist; founder of Greek Cultural Resources
Conserving Greek Musical Heritage – The unique music collection at Greek Cultural Resources
Greek Cultural Resources, founded in 2006 by Greek-American historian and archivist Meletios Pouliopoulos, preserves a unique and exceptionally significant collection documenting the history of Greek music in America. The music collection brings together a rare and multifaceted body of materials: thousands of commercial and independent recordings, hundreds of field recordings, the archives of four Greek-American radio stations, hundreds of hours of radio programs, sheet music, and original music manuscripts dating back to the 1930s. Of particular and unique importance are the handwritten discographic notes of Gust J. (Dino) Pappas, an invaluable source for documenting and reconstructing the history of Greek-American discography. The collection is further distinguished by its documentation not only of secular and religious music among Greek Americans, but also of their cultural interactions with other immigrant communities and musical traditions. It therefore constitutes a unique archival record of an important yet largely lost or insufficiently documented chapter in the history of Greek music.
The presentation highlighs the unique music collection and artifacts of
Greek Cultural Resources as its collection reflects the rich history and diversity of secular and non-secular music, and the lost history of Greek Music in America.
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Moderation: Stefania Merakos, The Friends of Music Society, Treasurer of the Board of the IAML Greek Branch.
🌐 Language of the presentation: English
The presentations will be followed by a discussion.
- Duration: 60 minutes
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No prior specialist knowledge is required to attend. For any further information, please contact us at iaml.greece[at]gmail.com.
Meletios Pouliopoulos is a Greek-American independent scholar, historian and archivist, and founder of Greek Cultural Resources, a cultural non-profit that conserves Greek American Heritage. In Boston, he produces the radio show “Mondays with Meleti,” where he presents recordings from the archives of Greek Cultural Resources. Pouliopoulos researches and lectures on Greek-American history and on Greek music produced in America. In 2015, he served as a consultant on Greek Music in America, an exhibit about Greek music that was produced by the City of Tarpon Springs, FL. His ground-breaking research on Greek Piano Rolls in the United States and his article on the artist Nicos Tseperis were included in book Greek Music in America (2018, University Press of Mississippi). In 2019, Pouliopoulos was a consultant to the Greek American Archives Project at the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Since 2019, Pouliopoulos serves as consultant to the Hellenic Chronicle Newspaper Digitization Project, where he developed the strategy for online digital newspaper archive, and archived 35,000 newspaper pages. Also since 2019, he serves as a consultant to the Library at St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, where he created an online catalog over 1500 books, developed digital photo and document archives, and established the library core programs. In 2021, he documented 175 musical instruments and 300 field recordings in the collection of Sotirios “Sam” Chianis, for donations to Athens University in Athens, Greece, and Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.