ABSTRACT
Musical perspectives from 1975 to 1998 mirror the Armenian struggle spanning the last thirty years over the legacy of the Genocide. Both Charles Aznavour and Alan Hovhaness acknowledged that a catastrophe happened to the Armenian people, yet they ultimately praised their people's rebirth without making a clear statement regarding a "just" outcome for the Armenian Genocide. Some twenty years later, a new generation of Armenian-American artists took a different, somewhat darker and angrier approach to the issue. Moreover, System of a Down, unlike Aznavour, Hovhaness, and Gregg Bendian, goes a step further by demanding a "just" outcome for the Armenian Genocide. Starting in 1965, citizens in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic started the process of addressing and protesting the outcome of the 1915 Genocide. Massive demonstrations marked the first collective step toward breaking down a partially self-imposed denial of the Genocide.
