The earth hums along to its own soundtrack. Hear it Oct. 11 at our USC Visions and Voices event featuring Dr. Lucy Jones, Dj Rupture, and more.

Congratulations to USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism professor Josh Kun!

Want to organize your research? Our librarians are hosting a Sept. 29 workshop on citation managers.

Some of the first Armenians who settled in the Central Valley of California were Armenian Evangelicals who came with a prominent musical tradition. Pictured here is the Armenian Pilgrim Orchestra of the Pilgrim Armenian Congregational Church in 1912.
(Picture from the Armenian Studies Program, Fresno State).

In 1970, at USC, Marjorie Merjanian wrote a Master’s thesis in Music entitled "A Study of the Armenian Protestant movement and its hymnody,” archived at USC’s Digital Libraries (USC Libraries).

From USC's Digital Libraries (USC Libraries): “Original Translations of Selection from Daniel Varoujean with an Introduction and Prefatory Notes to each Poem.”

Written in 1940 by Aram Tolegian as a Masters thesis in Comparative Literature at University of Southern California.
Tolegian went on to publish a translation of “David of Sassoun: The Armenian Folk Epic."