Don’t let me be lost to you: early 20th century near-estern music in New York city

Many thousands of recordings were left behind by Arabic-, Armenian-, Kurdish-, and Turkish-speaking musicians in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th Century. Music researcher Ian Nagoski examines the lives and work of some of the superb performers from Greater Syria and Anatolia, who spoke to their compatriots in America in the early 20th century and enriched American musical culture in the process