'The Water Has Found Its Crack': Finding Armenia Through Music (Zoom)

Displacement and dispersion loom large in the Armenian collective memory, as seen through their music and the work of the composer and musicologist Komitas. A longing to reclaim elements of lost culture pervades the Armenian diaspora, where Home is reconstituted in exile. In response to the notion of a reclaiming of culture, Joseph Bohigian moved to Armenia to compose a piece titled "The Water Has Found its Crack," tracing displacement, dispersion, and reclamation in Armenian music in order to explore the ways these three elements affect the negotiation of internal and external identity boundaries in diaspora.