From the Canary Records Bandcamp site:
“Armenian singers from the central, southern, and eastern regions of Turkey — Urfa, Diyarbekir, Malatya, Gaziantep, Harput, etc. — recorded prolifically in the U.S. from the mid-1910s through the ‘20s. Meanwhile, Darü-1 Elhan (Istanbul Conservatory) was founded in 1916. During the 1920s, academics there began conducting field trips to collect folk music. A Folklore Association was also established in Ankara in 1927. Ankara University founded its Folklore department in 1948. Meanwhile, few Turkish performers from the same regions made commercial disc until the late ‘20s and early ‘30s. Some of them became celebrities appearing in films and recording prolifically, but some have remained obscure.”
