Echoes of Armenia: Diasporic music, transmission, and social memory in New England. Goldstein, I. I. Master's thesis, Tufts University, 2010. ![Echoes of Armenia: Diasporic music, transmission, and social memory in New England [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
URL abstract bibtex 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. I argue that various divergent, diasporic notions of Armenianness, across multiple generations, informed by emergent geopolitical agendas and multiple waves of migration, effect transformations in musical performance practice and reception. At the same time some musicians resist these changes, seeking to preserve their traditional music in the face of perceived, and often very real, threats to continuity and cultural transmission.
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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.
I argue that various divergent, diasporic notions of Armenianness, across multiple generations, informed by emergent geopolitical agendas and multiple waves of migration, effect transformations in musical performance practice and reception. At the same time some musicians resist these changes, seeking to preserve their traditional music in the face of perceived, and often very real, threats to continuity and cultural transmission.},
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urldate = {2023-07-20},
school = {Tufts University},
author = {Goldstein, Ian Isaac},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Armenian, Communication and the arts, Diaspora, Kef, Oud},
}
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