Music and the Armenian Diaspora : Searching for Home in Exile
Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: fro...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press,
2015
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa Ser. |
| Schlagworte: | Armenians-Foreign countries-Music-History and criticism Expatriate musicians-Social conditions Musicians-Armenia (Republic)-Social conditions Music-Armenia-History and criticism Musicians-Armenia-Social conditions Armenians Expatriate musicians Musicians Music Electronic books |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (216 p) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: from the identification of folk music with an emergent Armenian nationalism under Ottoman rule to the early postgenocide diaspora community of Armenian musicians in New York, a more self-consciously nationalist musical tradition that emerged in Armenian communities in Lebanon, and more recent clashes o |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource (216 p) |
| ISBN: | 9780253017550 0253017556 9780253017765 0253017769 |