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Gail Holst-Warhaft was born in
Melbourne Australia. She completed a BA in English Literature and History of
Art before leaving for Greece, where she worked as a musician and journalist
during the 1970's. She played harpsichord in the orchestras of three of
Greece's leading musicians: Mikis Theodorakis, Dionysis Savvopoulos and Mariza
Koch.
Her first book, Road to
Rembetika: Music of Greek Sub-culture was published in 1975 and has been
translated in Greek, German, Turkish and French. Ms. Holst-Warhaft wrote the
script for a prize-winning documentary film based on her book that was narrated
by Anthony Quinn (Rembetika: The Blues of Greece ). Her second book, Theodorakis:
Myth and Politics in Modern Greek Music, was published by Adolf Hakkert
(Amsterdam) in 1980. In 1990, Holst-Warhaft received a PhD. in Comparative
Literature from Cornell University. Her dissertation was the basis of a third
book: Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature, published
by Routledge in 1992. Holst-Warhaft's most recent book is The Cue for
Passion: Grief and its Political Uses, published by Harvard University
Press (2000).
Gail Holst-Warhaft has published
translations of many works of poetry and prose from modern and ancient Greek
including her prize-winning translation of the collected poems of Nikos
Kavadias, Achilles' Fiancee by Alki Zei, Mauthausen, by Iakovos
Kambanellis, and The Suppliants, by Aeschylus (University of Pennsylvania
Press). Holst-Warhaft began writing poetry seriously the 1980s, and has
published her poems in journals and anthologies including The Gospels in Our
Image, (Harcourt Brace), Seneca Review, Forward, Ithaca
Women's Anthology, Antipodes and Bookpress.
She is an adjunct Associate
Professor in the departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at Cornell University
and works as a part-time academic, free-lance writer, and translator.
Publications
"Amanes:
The Legacy of the Oriental Mother", in A &M (Musicology on Line),
2000.
"The
Female Dervish and Other Shady Ladies of the Rebetika." In Gender and
Music
in the Mediterranean,
University of Chicago Press (forthcoming).
Entries
on "Rebetika", "Sotiria Bellou", "Vassilis
Tsitsanis" and "The Piraeus Quartet", in New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (forthcoming).
"Bibliography
of Modern Greek Music" and "Bibliography of Greek Dance". In Greece
in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English in 22
Disciplines from 1900-1995. Scarecrow Press, 2000.
"Rebetika
Revisted", in Laografia (Newsletter of the International Greek
Folklore Society).
"What
the Grocer Said", in Aegean Review, vol. 9., 1988/89.
"Resisting
Translation: Slang and Subversion in the Rebetika", in Journal of
Modern Greek Studies, vol. 8, 1990.
"Markos
Vamvakaris and the Hybrid" In Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora (forthcoming).
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