Middle Eastern Music

Middle Eastern immigrants are likely to represent one of four broad linguistic-cultural-regional groups: Arabs, Armenians, Iranians, and Turks. They come to North America from many regions, including Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus, and countries in the Arab world. Ethnic populations, for example, Assyrians and Kurds who come from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey, are also represented in smaller numbers in North America. Although often lumped together by the American mainstream, each group has a...