Reflection of the Theme of Concentration Camps in the Songs and Music
Gatrjian, Avo · 2024
Examines songs and music produced in multiple languages and periods in and about the Genocide camps along the Euphrates, across folk, rock, metal, rap, jazz, classical and new-age idioms, and traces their transmission into film, graphic series, documentary and theater. The author teaches at Hamazkayin's Armenian Studies Institute in Aleppo.
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Gatrjian, Avo 2024. Reflection of the Theme of Concentration Camps in the Songs and Music. Ցեղասպանագիտական հանդես / Journal of Genocide Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 9–40 (AGMI Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/jgs.0055. https://doi.org/10.51442/jgs.0055
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How the camps have been sung about for a century: from folk laments to Armenian metal bands.
Survey of an underexamined corpus; author is a Hamazkayin-affiliated researcher.
Our music carried the memory of Der Zor when nothing else could.
A century of songs about the Armenian death camps, from village laments to rock records.
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