Expanding the American Canon

Music researcher and Canary Records founder Ian Nagoski uncovers the forgotten musical masterpieces of early 20th-century immigrants and natives in this engaging lecture and listening party.

Ian Nagoski is an independent music researcher and reissue record producer in Baltimore, Maryland, who has specialized for 20 years in early 20th-century recordings made by immigrants to the U.S., especially musicians from the Ottoman Empire. He has made anthologies for Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square (including To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora in 2011), the Database of Recorded American Music, Mississippi Records, and his Canary imprint, which has released over 150 digital albums. He 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. He has presented installations at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Wellcome Collection in London, and the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh.

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