Gail Holst-Warhaft is the director of the Mediterranean Initiative at Cornell and an adjunct professor in Comparative Literature and Classics. In the 1970's she performed with leading Greek composers including Mikis Theodorakis, Dionysis Savvopoulos and Mariza Koch. Her first book, Road to Rembetika: Music of a Greek Sub-culture (1975) has been translated into Greek, German, French and Turkish. She is also the author of Theodorakis; Myth and Politics in Modern Greek Music (1980) and many articles on Greek music.