Echoes of Armenia: Diasporic music, transmission, and social memory in New England. Goldstein, I. I. 2010. ISBN: 9781109767735
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This thesis examines music-cultural transmission, change, and diasporic collective identity in New England's Armenian American community. Drawing on my recent ethnographic research, I have three related objectives: (1) to convey some of the personal experiences of several "traditional culture bearers," musicians active in the community; (2) to explore internal tensions within the community around the use of Turkish signifiers in "traditional" live music played at dances, memorial concerts, and other private and public Armenian social events, and; (3) to illuminate the various methods in which Armenian Americans learn and pass on their music, and with it, a sense of personal and communal identity.
@misc{goldstein_echoes_2010,
	title = {Echoes of {Armenia}: {Diasporic} music, transmission, and social memory in {New} {England}.},
	abstract = {This thesis examines music-cultural transmission, change, and diasporic collective identity in New England's Armenian American community. Drawing on my recent ethnographic research, I have three related objectives: (1) to convey some of the personal experiences of several "traditional culture bearers," musicians active in the community; (2) to explore internal tensions within the community around the use of Turkish signifiers in "traditional" live music played at dances, memorial concerts, and other private and public Armenian social events, and; (3) to illuminate the various methods in which Armenian Americans learn and pass on their music, and with it, a sense of personal and communal identity.},
	language = {eng},
	publisher = {Thesis (M.A.)–Tufts University, 2010.},
	author = {Goldstein, Ian Isaac.},
	year = {2010},
	note = {ISBN: 9781109767735},
	keywords = {Armenian Americans – New England – Music},
}

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