Sounding Memory: Music & Migration
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: On The Move / 4.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018-07-04
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2018, Item SFF2018_0704_Armenia_Hyurasenyak_0004
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Kumera Genet Zachariac; Arto Tuncboyaciyan; Nairi Khatchadourian; Music is one of the human expressions where rootedness and distant influences can be readily identified. Kumera Genet, D.C.-based musician, youth educator, and community organizer, leads a conversation with Arto Tunçboyaciyan, a renowned composer, multi-instrumentalist, and leader of the Armenian Navy Band, and Nairi Khatchadourian, curator at the Komitas Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia, devoted to the renowned musicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet. Their discussion explores how heritage, migration, and exile shape creative practices, and the way Armenian musical traditions have influenced and been themselves transformed through transnational experiences. The session is co-presented with the American Anthropological Association. It is part of the series Cultures of Survival: From Displacement to Resilience supported by the ANCA Endowment Fund #KeepThePromise and Aurora Humanitarian Initiative.