Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile
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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 over music and politics in California. Alajaji offers a critical look at the complex and multilayered forces that shape identity within communities in exile, demonstrating that music is deeply enmeshed in these processes. Multimedia components available online include video and audio recordings to accompany each case study.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As an aspiring ethnomusicologist and generational affectee of genocide myself (Tolowa Native American), I have long felt kinship with the journey Armenian music and culture has taken to survive in its diaspora. This book chronicles that journey in a way that is truly empirical, and yet, still hopeful. Much can be learned by anyone reading this book about how to study, collaborate, and support cultures with a chapter of genocide in their history. May this book help take Armenian music into the future!