[PDF] Music And The Armenian Diaspora eBook

Author : Sylvia Angelique Alajaji
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0253017769

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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.

Author : Jonathan McCollum
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810849679

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This is a comprehensive bibliography of Armenian music dealing with not only the music itself but also issues of context and culture that will be of interest to ethnomusicologists working in the area of Armenian music. It also includes a discography that spans from classical music to pop and folk.

Author : Tony Perman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 025205668X

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Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of community and formed social bonds that lasted beyond its departure. In the sections that follow, the essayists turn to stable communities that used musical forms to address social needs and both forged new social groups and, in some cases, splintered established communities. By centering the value of difference in productive feedback dynamics of music and community while asserting the need for mutual moral indebtedness, they foreground music’s potential to transform community for the better. Contributors: Stephen Blum, Joanna Bosse, Sylvia Bruinders, Donna A. Buchanan, Rick Deja, Veit Erlmann, Stefan Fiol, Eduardo Herrera, David A. McDonald, Tony Perman, Thomas Solomon, and Ioannis Tsekouras

Author : Sylvia Alajaji
Publisher :
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN :

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This dissertation examines the role of music in reflecting and confronting various historical and political realities since the 1915 genocide that claimed the lives of approximately one million Armenians living in present-day Turkey and resulted in the dispersion of survivors throughout the world. The study of music in the Armenian diaspora offers many opportunities for the exploration of music's role in the establishment of cultural identity. I propose that since the late 19th-century, the definition of Armenian music has continually changed, reflecting the realities presented by years of occupation, the genocide and its aftermath, and the consequences of the state of conflict over the very existence of that event. The study of iconic musical figures and movements in the Armenian diaspora reveals how music has been used to accommodate and/or direct shifting senses of self--shifts that correspond to "incubational" (Gramsci's term) moments of time. This dissertation speaks to the complex relationships between diasporic and geographical Armenia, diasporic Armenian communities and their various host cultures, and the diasporic communities themselves. In many ways, each manifestation of diasporic Armenian culture owes as much to an identification with the host community as to, conversely, a reaction against it as well.

Author : Talar Chahinian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0755648226

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From genocide, forced displacement, and emigration, to the gradual establishment of sedentary and rooted global communities, how has the Armenian diaspora formed and maintained a sense of collective identity? This book explores the richness and magnitude of the Armenian experience through the 20th century to examine how Armenian diaspora elites and their institutions emerged in the post-genocide period and used “stateless power” to compose forms of social discipline. Historians, cultural theorists, literary critics, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists explore how national and transnational institutions were built in far-flung sites from Istanbul, Aleppo, Beirut and Jerusalem to Paris, Los Angeles, and the American mid-west. Exploring literary and cultural production as well as the role of religious institutions, the book probes the history and experience of the Armenian diaspora through the long 20th century, from the role of the fin-de-siècle émigré Armenian press to the experience of Syrian-Armenian asylum seekers in the 21st century. It shows that a diaspora's statelessness can not only be evidence of its power, but also how this “stateless power” acts as an alternative and complement to the nation-state.

Author : George A. Bournoutian
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :

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The first part of the study discusses the origins of the Armenians, the Urartian Kingdom, Armenia and the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman, Sasanid and Byzantine periods. It also examines Christinaity in Armenia and the development of an alphabet and literature. The work then continues with the history of Armenia during the Arab, Turkish and Mongol periods. A separate chapter deals with the history of Cilician Armenia and the Crusades. The second part concentrates on the Armenian communities in the Ottoman, Persian, Indian, and Russian empires (1500-1918). It also details the Armenian diaspora in Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, the Arab World, the Far East, and the Americas. The study concludes with lengthy chapters on the history of the three Armenian republics (1918-1920); (1921-1991Soviet Armenia); and the current Armenian republic (1991-2001)

Author : Nalbantian Tsolin Nalbantian
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1474458599

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This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s.Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.

Author : Henry R. Shapiro
Publisher : Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2023-11
Category : Armenians
ISBN : 9781474479615

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How mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire At the turn of the 17th century, the historical Armenian population centres in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus were ravaged by war with Persia, rebellion, famine and economic collapse. This instability caused mass migrations towards secure territories in Western Anatolia, Istanbul and Thrace, migrations which catalysed a renaissance of Armenian literary and cultural life in the Ottoman capital. This book traces the emergence, experiences and cultural and literary production of Armenian communities in and around Istanbul and the western provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Using both Ottoman Turkish and little-known Armenian sources, Henry Shapiro provides a systematic study of the Armenian population movements that resulted in the cosmopolitan remaking of Istanbul - and the birth of the Western Armenian diaspora. Key Features  The first English-language book on Armenian cultural history in the early modern Ottoman Empire  Based on original research using Armenian manuscripts and Ottoman Turkish archives  Includes 3 black-and-white maps and 20 photographs of Armenian ruins, historical sites and manuscript pages Henry R. Shapiro is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Polansky Academy for Advanced Study at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.