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Electric Silk Road with Bei Ru: Presentation, Performance, and Reception
by Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative
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The Middle East music of the 1960s-1980s is as complex and varied as its socio-economic and political developments. From classical and folk to pop, music in the multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic region encompasses a rich and vibrant world. During these decades, the Middle East was home to the largest Armenian population outside of (Soviet) Armenia until its gradual demise starting in the mid-1970s due to the Lebanon War and the 1978/79 Iranian Revolution, followed by multiple other conflicts–new and continuing–affecting the region to the present. Armenians maintained their identity in diaspora with language, church, school, and culture, including music.
Like other aspects of Armenian identity, music developed in hyphenated and multi-layered forms influenced by its local and regional Middle Eastern and global European and American cultural, social, and political contexts. The presentation and performance will take the audience through the period's Middle Eastern culture through Armenians' and Bei Ru's own—decades later—engagement with its music.
Los Angeles-based music producer, composer, and artist Bei Ru revives songs as he traverses through a map of the sounds of Armenian and Middle Eastern music.
The event will be highlighted by a presentation, Q&A, and performance during a reception featuring Middle Eastern light refreshments.
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Humanities Gateway 1030
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, United States
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