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Talk-and-record-listening session with:𝗜𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝗴𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗶, an independent music researcher and reissue producer from Baltimore, Maryland. For over 20 years, he has specialized in early 20th-century recordings made by immigrants to the U.S., especially musicians from the Ottoman Empire.
He has produced anthologies for Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square (including To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 2011), the Database of Recorded American Music, Mississippi Records, and his own imprint, Canary Records, which has released over 195 digital albums to date.
Ian has toured widely as a speaker—from Thessaloniki to Fresno—including talks at the Library of Congress, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, UCLA, the University of Chicago, the Armenian Museum in Watertown (MA), and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. His installations have appeared at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Wellcome Collection in London, and the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh. A fragment of his work was included on the MoonArk, the first object permanently installed on the Moon (2020).
🔗 https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/
Ian Nagoski’s talk and record-listening session reveals a world-within-a-world of musical culture as it evolved over two generations—celebrating the overlooked masterpieces of immigrant artists and exploring the social realities of a “nation of immigrants,” its ambivalences, and its memories.
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tue 18 November 2025 | start: 19:30
location: L'Estaminet 1030, dans la cour de la Maison des Arts, Haachtsesteenweg 147, 1030 Bruxelles
suggested contribution: €5,- or more
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