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Various Artists - To What Strange Place (The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929)

To What Strange Place (The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929)


With all the 20th century reissues of "lost," "undiscovered," and "private press" field recordings by obscure groups, outsider musicians, and songwriters are coming to light -- and market -- more than ever before. Tompkins Square's To What Strange Place: The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929, curated and compiled painstakingly by Ian Nagoski, may be one of these, but it is also a breed apart. Simply put. Nagoski's three-disc collection assembles recordings made mostly in New York City between 1916 (the year before the United States entered World War I, and the year after the Anatolian genocide that killed 2.5 million people) through the first year of the Great Depression. Geographically ...

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