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Jason Hamacher collection, 2006-2015

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Series 1: Syria trip 1, 2006
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc001 Photographs, 2006
Filepath: Syria trip 1, 2006
Extent: 3,565 color photographs (PSD, CR2, JPG, TIFF)
Raw photograph files from Hamacher's first trip to Syria in 2006. Photographs include documentation of religious and musical traditions, landmarks and historic sites, and everyday life and customs in the city of Aleppo. Duplicate photographs may exist throughout this series.
Series 2: Syria trip 2, 2007
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc001 Photographs, 2007
Filepath: Syria trip 2, 2007
Extent: 5,675 color photographs (PSD, CR2, JPG, TIFF)
Raw photograph files from Hamacher's trip to Syria in 2007. Photographs include documentation of religious and musical traditions, landmarks and historic sites, foodways, and everyday life and customs in the city of Aleppo. Duplicate photographs may exist throughout this series.
Series 3: Syria trip 3, 2008
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc001 Photographs, 2008
Filepath: Syria trip 3, 2008
Extent: 2,151 color photographs (PSD, CR2, JPG, TIFF)
Raw photograph files from the first of Hamacher's two trips to Syria in 2008. His 2008 trips focused on documentation of Jewish sites in Syria. Photographs include documentation of religious and musical traditions, landmarks and historic sites, foodways, and everyday life and customs in the city of Aleppo. Duplicate photographs may exist throughout this series.
Series 4: Syria trip 4, 2008
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc001 Photographs, 2008
Filepath: Syria trip 4, 2008
Extent: 579 color photographs (CR2, JPG, TIFF)
Raw photograph files from the second of Hamacher's two trips to Syria in 2008. His 2008 trips focused on documentation of Jewish sites in Syria. Photographs include documentation of religious and musical traditions, landmarks and historic sites, and everyday life and customs in the city of Aleppo. Duplicate photographs may exist throughout this series.
Series 5: Syria trip 5, 2010-2015
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc001 Photographs, 2010
Filepath: Syria trip 5, 2010
Extent: 2,266 color photographs (PSD, CR2, JPG, TIFF)
Raw photograph files from Hamacher's final trip to Syria in 2010. Photographs include documentation of religious and musical traditions, landmarks and historic sites, foodways, and everyday life and customs in the city of Aleppo. Duplicate photographs may exist throughout this series.
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc001 Field recordings, 2010
Filepath: Syria trip 5, 2010\Field recordings
Extent: 7 video files (MOV)
Unedited field recordings of Nawa, a group of men formed to perserve musical traditions in Aleppo, performing traditional Sufi chants and songs.
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc002 Nawa: Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs from Aleppo, 2014
Track 1: Fasel Al Jalal, Track 2: Fasel Al Sawi, Track 3: Fasel Kesmet Al Sawi, Track 4: Mowashah Al Refku Be Maftoon, Track 5: Mowashah Habbatha Al Dugah, Track 6: Mowashah Dhabya Wadi Al Naqah
Performers: Mouhammed Amino, Fawaz Baker, Khaled Al Hafez, Mouhammed Hlouhi, Ibrahim Jaber, Ibrahim Muslimani, Mouhammed Muslimani, Bashar Al Sayed, Tarek Al Sayed Yehya
Extent: 6 sound files (WAV)
Nawa performed traditional Sufi chants and songs, sometimes in public, until the outbreak of civil war in Syria. These songs and chants were recorded as part of Hamacher's final trip to Syria in 2010 and released as an album by Lost Origin Productions in 2014.
Digital ID: afc2017007_dc003 Forty Martyrs: Armenian Chanting from Aleppo, 2015
Track 1: When, Track 2: Today He Rose from the Dead, Track 3: Great and Wondrous Mystery, Track 4: We Who are Gathered at the Renunciation, Track 5: In Heavenly Jerusalem, Track 6: Lord Have Mercy, Track 7: Praise the Lord O' Jerusalem, Track 8: Our Father
Performer: V. Rev. Yeznig Zegchanian
Extent: 8 sound files (WAV)
Armenian chants recorded by Hamacher in Forty Martyrs Armenian Apostolic Church during his 2006 and 2010 trips to Syria and released as an album by Lost Origin Productions in 2015.
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Optical media, 2014-2015
Extent: 2 sound discs (CD)
Optical discs and associated manuscripts that originally housed digital files from afc2017007_dc002 and afc2017007_dc003.

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