What kind of armenian music is this ? Never heard tunes like that
TheJaymort on
So weird to me to see Armenians dancing in shorts and Hawaiian shirts, to music I’d otherwise never recognize as Armenian lol. That look would never be seen in Armenia, and it just goes to show how differently the old Western Armenian diaspora in places like the East Coast have developed their modernized versions of Armenian music. If this was in Armenia it would have been all clarinet and dhol.
With that said, how much can you relate to Armenians from Armenia whenever you see their culture? For me, it’s very hard to relate to this Armenian experience.
LesserKnownRiverGods on
Everybody in this thread need to look at or read Sylvia Alajaji’s book « Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile » or at least listen to the interview that she did on Ottoman History Podcast:
This is by far the most complete and comprehensive description of post-Genocide Western Armenian music development in the US and the Middle East. The dancing and the music in the original post is exactly what so many of us grew up with, and Sylvia’s book was the first time I saw someone intelligently talk about it (rather than just saying « this is Turkish » etc.)
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What kind of armenian music is this ? Never heard tunes like that
So weird to me to see Armenians dancing in shorts and Hawaiian shirts, to music I’d otherwise never recognize as Armenian lol. That look would never be seen in Armenia, and it just goes to show how differently the old Western Armenian diaspora in places like the East Coast have developed their modernized versions of Armenian music. If this was in Armenia it would have been all clarinet and dhol.
With that said, how much can you relate to Armenians from Armenia whenever you see their culture? For me, it’s very hard to relate to this Armenian experience.
Everybody in this thread need to look at or read Sylvia Alajaji’s book « Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile » or at least listen to the interview that she did on Ottoman History Podcast:
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/04/alajaji.html?m=1
This is by far the most complete and comprehensive description of post-Genocide Western Armenian music development in the US and the Middle East. The dancing and the music in the original post is exactly what so many of us grew up with, and Sylvia’s book was the first time I saw someone intelligently talk about it (rather than just saying « this is Turkish » etc.)