Six Reasons to Travel

An American Singer in Georgia

Stuart Gelzer

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Bertie Stanhope Press
01 August 2024

Theory of music & musicology; Biography: arts & entertainment; Travel & holiday guides

From the stage of the Tbilisi Opera House to pagan sacrifice in a Caucasus Mountain village, here's an accessible, in-depth, personal look at traditional Georgian music.

But Six Reasons to Travel also has a surprising lot to say about how to propose a Georgian toast, how to go hunting if you're a vegetarian, how to learn all the parts to a song entirely by ear, how to fend off both wild dogs on the street and the death grip of Georgian hospitality at table-even how to make enemies in the Georgian academic world. And behind all the comedy lies the deeper story of what it was like for the people of a small country with a rich ancient culture to live through the exhilarating, traumatic collapse of the Soviet Empire.

Stuart Gelzer first visited Georgia in the Cold War 1970s and has been back repeatedly over a span of more than thirty-five years. Much of Six Reasons covers the period when he was living and studying language and music intensively in Georgia in the 1990s, the critical decade in which Georgians saw their lives uprooted as they staggered into the post-Soviet world.

Gelzer is far from an anonymous reporter gliding unobserved through modern Georgian life. As a member of Trio Kavkasia-quasi-celebrities in a country that takes its traditional music very seriously-he played a part in the early popularization of Georgian folk music abroad. Rather than a work of reportage, therefore, Six Reasons to Travel is the highly subjective, often irreverent, unexpectedly comical account of what happened to him along the way.

By: Stuart Gelzer
Imprint: Bertie Stanhope Press
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 331g
ISBN: 9780578992983
ISBN 10: 0578992981
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stuart Gelzer, the child of American missionaries, grew up in Cameroon and India. Over the years he's been a screenwriter, a film editor, a drama teacher, a film and photography teacher, and a singer specializing in folk music from the Republic of Georgia. Nowadays he does fine-art photography, writes fiction and travel memoir, and translates old French popular novels. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Six Reasons to Travel

An American Singer in Georgia

Stuart Gelzer

$47.95

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