No Rabis Music: Students for Purity of Folk Music
Today, “Nzhdeh” military patriotic club joint a group of students of Department of Management conducted a seminar-training, which say accurate and flat “NO” to rabis music.
“No rabis music” students stated the heading of the measure: rabis music is non Armenian musical thinking, more specifically, it doesn’t contain national tones and emphasis.
“Why do we adopt others values, why do they steal our treasures and adopt them, and we preach and spread their tasteless ones”; mentioned the President of “Nzhdeh” military patriotic club Hayk Grigoryan, and the students said that rabis music can’t be a part of our culture.
Lilit Petrosyan (Management, 1st year), Anahit Takiryan (Tourism Management, 3rd year), Karine Davtyan (Management, 1st year), Ani Harutyunyan (Tourism Management, 2nd year) referred to origin and development of rabis music, the rapid spread trends and etc..
The students mentioned that it is important to recognize the treasures of our folk music, to pamper and present them for protecting the purity of our spiritual and physical homeland and its cultural heritage, as they mentioned the music has language and thinking and we should resist our inner enemy, which tries to impose us the tongue of a stranger instead of the Mother one.
At the end of the measure the attendees acted with an initiative: they submitted a list of Armenian folk music and asked the attendees to spread the songs via Internet (Facebook)-#ASUE#Nzhdeh_SC.
Anahit Takiryan performed the song “Aghunik”.
ASUE Media and Public Relations Division
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