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Music and the Armenian Diaspora : Searching for Home in Exile / Sylvia Angelique Alajaji.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alajaji, Sylvia, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Ethnomusicology multimedia.
- Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
- Ethnomusicology multimedia
- Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicians--Armenia--Social conditions.
- Music--Armenia--History and criticism.
- Musicians--Armenia (Republic)--Social conditions.
- Expatriate musicians--Social conditions.
- Armenians--Foreign countries--Music--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Ottoman Empire, 1890-1915
- New York, 1932-1958
- Beirut, 1932-1958
- Beirut, 1958-1980
- California.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253017765
- 0253017769
- OCLC:
- 919495839
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