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MUSIC: TORCH canticles OF THE ALTERNATIVE.

Perhaps it was the trauma of coming to grips with the vastness and
alienation of the Diaspora; of the grind of simply getting according to under
a Soviet regime; or an ancient determination toward fatalism. Whatever
your sociological stance, the fact remains that Armenian popular music
of the 20th hundred years has all but sidestepped daily life.

Armenia's urbanizations, beginning with the 1920 and the Diaspora'
de facto cosmopolitanism in the period following the Genocide, have
made Armenian suddenly the natural descendant of Armenian folk music -
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