by Dr. Rebecca Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee Key words: Georgia; liturgical chanting; sacred polyphony; national identity; intangible cultural heritage; Georgian Orthodox Church. Module description: The module explores the questions of how and why…
by Professor Oksana Nesterenko, Visiting Scholar, New York University, and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee. Keywords: Spiritual music; sacred text; symphony; Soviet Union; Soviet policy; Armenia; Avet Terterian; Tigran Mansurian; and David Haladjan. Module Description: This module examines spiritual music…
by Professor Isabelle Kaplan, Howard University and ARISC Junior Research Fellowship awardee. Keywords: Soviet Union; ethnic minorities; Azerbaijan; opera; cultural experience; cultural legacy Module Description: Even as Russian language and cultural hegemony dominated the Soviet Union, there were spaces in…
Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest”by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: babalan, duduk, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Eurovision, Garabagh, political, music Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF |…
Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest”by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: balaban, duduk, Armenia, Azerbaijan, UNESCO, Eurovision, music Text | PowerPoint | PowerPoint PDF | Video…
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944″by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekada, socialism, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Stalin, opera, Ker-oglu, Arshin Mal Alan, Leyli & Mejnun, Nizami Text | Video
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944″by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekady, Soviet, opera, Druzhba Naradov, campaign, Moscow, music, nationalities policy, Armenia, Azerbaijan Text | Video
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekada, Moscow, Stalin, Friendship of the Peoples, nationalities policy, bratskii Text | Video
Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University. “Caucasus Connections” (2014) presentation. Keywords: dekady, nationalities policy, Soviet, Stalin, imagined community, Moscow, Azerbaijan Text | Video