Re: R: Rosa Eskenazi

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

Dear Joan and George (yia sou, re Marko, me to bouzoukaki sou!) Robinson,


There are a couple of interesting articles by Gail Holst (now Holst-Warhaft)
on the web, too:

http://research.umbc.edu/eol/MA/index/number5/holst/holst_0.htm
Gail Holst-Warhaft
Amanes: The Legacy of the Oriental Mother


http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_modern_greek_studies/v015PDF/15
.2holst-warhaft.pdf
or
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_modern_greek_studies/v015SMK/15
.2holst-warhaft.html
Song, Self-Identity, and the Neohellenic
Gail Holst-Warhaft


Australian-born Holst-Warhaft is a professor of classics and comparative
literature at Cornell, so if you can't find the "Road to Rembetika" book any
other way...

Actually, I just found several Holst books, including "The Road to
Rembetica" for sale at the following site:
Greece In Print
www.greeceinprint.com
Do a search for "Holst."


Sto kalo,
Alexandra
(a.k.a., Sandra Layman the passionate devotee of rebetika, zmyrneika,
mikrasiatika ...)


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Robinson" <GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: R: Rosa Eskenazi


> 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
>


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