Re: R: Rosa Eskenazi

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

Joan --

Now you have to dig up a copy of Road to Rembetika by Gail Holst. Holst
is/was an Australian singer who went to Greece in the '60s and fell in
love with the music, came back many times and wrote this short book in
which she traces the history of the genre and offers many, many lyric
transcriptions and translations. The book was published in '75 by a very
obscure publishing company and may be hard to find. I got my copy
through www.bookfinder.com, which is, I think, the best of the used-book
search sites. A useful introduction.

George (Insert funny comment here) Robinson





Joan Rundo wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone, Sandra, Judith, Eliezer and George (the one that
> usually puts a wry comment in parentheses) for their info on Raza Eskenazi
> - I followed the indications and am now ready to start my collection of
> rembetika music!
> Love to all
> Joan
> 

-- 
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, 
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing 
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but
you 
cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you 
murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely 
increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiples violence, 
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness 
cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out 
hate: Only love can do that."
                                --Martin Luther King, Jr.

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