Music

[expand title=”Definition of Dekady”]

Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University

Keywords: dekada, Moscow, Stalin, Friendship of the Peoples, nationalities policy, bratskii

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[expand title=”Nation Building and the Dekada”]

Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University

Keywords: dekady, nationalities policy, Soviet, Stalin, imagined community, Moscow, Azerbaijan

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[expand title=”Participation of Azeribaijan and Georgia in the Dekady”]

Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University

Keywords: dekada, socialism, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Stalin, opera, Ker-oglu, Arshin Mal Alan, Leyli & Mejnun, Nizami

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[expand title=”Music as a Universal Language”]

Edited from: “The Dekady of the Art of the Caucasian Republics, 1937-1944”
by Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown University

Keywords: dekady, Soviet, opera, Druzhba Naradov, campaign, Moscow, music, nationalities policy, Armenia, Azerbaijan

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[expand title=”The Duduk as a Symbol of Armenian National Identity”]

Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest”
by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles

Keywords: balaban, duduk, Armenia, Azerbaijan, UNESCO, Eurovision, music

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[expand title=”Unity and Division: Azerbaijan in the 2012 Eurovision Song Context”]

Edited from: “‘Light Your Fire!’: Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest”
by Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles

Keywords: babalan, duduk, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Eurovision, Garabagh, political, music

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