Show Notes
S1E5 Ian Nagoski: Resurrecting Ghosts, Part 2
Ian Nagoski is a researcher and record producer from the Baltimore, MD area who specializes in music of the early 20th century in languages other than English. In the finale of a two part episode, Nagoski describes the detective work involved in piecing together a narrative for each recording he comes across. Artist/recording highlights including Edward Bogosian ("Soode Soode") , the curious case of Dr J.K. Sutherland, and the majestic beauty of the recording "Groung" by Zabelle Panossian.
This two part episode focuses on the beginning of the recorded music industry in the United States, with particular attention toward ethnic Armenians recording music in the early 20th century in the languages of Armenian and Turkish.
Music Featured
Komitas Vartabed- "Hov Arek" (Orfeon, 1912)
Zabelle Panossian- "Groung" (Columbia, 1917)
All music presented in this podcast is shared with the permission of Canary Records. Please go to https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/music for more information on these and other reissue recordings produced by Ian Nagoski.
Ian Nagoski Biography: Ian Nagoski is a music researcher and record producer in Baltimore, Maryland. For more than a decade, he has produced dozens of reissues of early 20th century recordings in languages other than English for labels including Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square, his own Canary Records, and others. His enthusiastic talks have been hosted at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens Greece, the University of Chicago, University of California Los Angeles and Santa Barbara and New York University, and he has presented his work in installation at the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin Germany, the Wellcome Center in London England, and the Peale Center in Baltimore Maryland. A fragment of his work is included on the MoonkArk, the first object to be permanently installed on the moon, in 2020.
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S1E4 Ian Nagoski: Resurrecting Ghosts, Part 1