On October 30th from 5-7 p.m. in the UCSB Library Special Research Collections Seminar Room, researcher and record producer Ian Nagoski will present a talk and record-listening event. At the height of immigration to the United States 100 years ago, a wave of people from the collapsing Ottoman Empire settled in the U.S. and New York record companies distributed music from Turkish, Syrian, Armenian, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Greek musicians. Nagoski illuminates a world-within-a-world of a musical culture as it developed over two generations, reveling in the specific and presenting little-heard masterpieces.

The event is co-sponsored by the UCSB library and the Center for Middle East Studies.