Unpacking Armenian Studies with Dr. Rik Adriaans

<p class="xmsonormal">"Those who criticize it will also dance to it at weddings." Anthropologist Rik Adriaans speaks to Institute director Salpi Ghazarian about ethnomusicology, patriotic music videos, post-socialism and the “R” word. Dr. Adriaans, a teaching fellow in digital anthropology at the University College London, studies the politics of Armenian public culture and the anthropology of rabiz music. </p> <p class="xmsonormal">To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, visit <a href= "http://armenian.usc.edu.">http://armenian.usc.edu.</a></p>