The Marble of Armenian History: Or Armenian History as World History

Aslanian, Sebouh David

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“…As scholars such as Melissa Bilal (2013) and Sylvia Alajaji (2015) have shown, discussing and performing music are modes of remembrance that can give voice to personal or collective trauma, bear witness to shared or antagonistic histories and bring silenced memories into public consciousness. Yet while it is essential to acknowledge the pervasive presence of the genocide and its aftermath in any discussion of Armenian identity, it is also important to attempt to move beyond what Sebouh Aslanian (following the Jewish historian Salo Wittmayer Baron) has termed the ‘lachrymose’ conception of Armenian history (Aslanian, 2014: 135). As Aslanian argues, this has perpetuated the notion of an autonomous history of the Armenian nation, which fails to take into account the wider context of historical events as well as the complex and shifting relationship between Armenians and their political, social and cultural environment.…”

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Remembering Armenian music in Bolis: Komitas Vardapet in transcultural perspective

Olley

2019

Memory Studies

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This article explores the relationship between music, memory and transcultural processes in late Ottoman Istanbul by studying the writings of the Armenian composer and musicologist Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935). It describes the changing political and intellectual landscape in which Komitas and his contemporaries redefined the collective musical memory of the Armenian people through a process of secularisation and internationalisation. I argue that there was a shift from local transculturalism, in which musical memories were to some extent shared between different ethnic and confessional groups in the Ottoman Empire, to a more global and modern transculturalism, in which consciously differentiated and often antagonistic national musical memories were constructed and disseminated across non-local spaces through new media and discursive strategies. In the process, rural music practices were appropriated from their local and unofficial contexts by urban, cosmopolitan elites and purposefully inscribed as monuments of Armenian cultural memory which have endured to the present.

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Remembering Armenian music in Bolis: Komitas Vardapet in transcultural perspective

Olley

2019

Memory Studies

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Institutionalized migrant solidarity in the late Ottoman Empire: Armenian homeland associations (1800s–1920s)

Cora

2020

New Perspect. Turk.

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By focusing on the Armenian homeland associations (hayrenakts‘akank‘) established in Istanbul in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this article examines the migrants’ activism and their achievements—facilitated by affective bonds based on shared origins. It outlines the Istanbul-based homeland associations’ development chronologically and discusses their cultural and economic goals in their home regions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The article then focuses on their durability and ability to adapt to the needs of the communities in the series of great political and demographic changes in the late Ottoman Empire from mid-1890s to their reconstruction after the end of World War I. The homeland associations established in the post-genocide period reflect the persistence of local belonging as a basis of solidarity and they fulfilled important functions as information networks and intermediaries between the survivors and the community administration. The article argues that Armenian homeland associations constituted a space in which agency of the migrants and their interaction with broader social and political developments could be observed in the late Ottoman Empire. They were one of the most durable and institutionalized forms of migrant solidarity which render migrants’ agency visible in the historiography of the late Ottoman Empire.

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Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide Armenian Genocide

Laycock¹

2015

Revolutionary Russia

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In April 2015 the centenary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated. Just like the First World War centenary, this anniversary has provoked a flurry of academic and public interest in what remains a highly contested history. This article assesses the state of the current historiography on the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. It focuses on the possibilities for moving beyond the national narratives which continue to dominate the field, in particular through connecting the case of the Armenian Genocide to what has been termed a 'transnational turn' in the writing of the history of the First World War.

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The Marble of Armenian History: Or Armenian History as World History

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Remembering Armenian music in Bolis: Komitas Vardapet in transcultural perspective

Remembering Armenian music in Bolis: Komitas Vardapet in transcultural perspective

Institutionalized migrant solidarity in the late Ottoman Empire: Armenian homeland associations (1800s–1920s)

Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide Armenian Genocide

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