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WHAT WAS IT LIKE

for the members of Trio Kavkasia to live and study music in the Republic of Georgia in the 1990s — the critical, chaotic decade in which Georgians saw their lives uprooted by civil war and economic collapse as the country staggered into the post-Soviet world?

One of us, Stuart, has written a book-length memoir about his and the trio's experiences in Georgia, focusing on the mid-Nineties but stretching across thirty-five years of his engagement with Georgian music and culture, from 1978 to 2013.

Three excerpts from Stuart's memoir have been published in online creative nonfiction magazines. Click on the titles below to open the links:

"Song Collectors"

in the July 2013 issue of Hippocampus Magazine


A field-research expedition the trio made to the mountains of Guria in 1997. (For reasons of space, no actual song collecting is accomplished in the course of the excerpt.)

porch table
"Guns and Dogs"

in the August 2013 issue of Hippocampus Magazine


Some of the grimmer aspects of daily life in Georgia,
especially in Tbilisi, in 1995.



tank
"The Watermelon Hunters"

in the Oct/Nov 2013 issue of Eclectica Magazine,
where Stuart was the "Spotlight On" author

Alan and Stuart's experiences on a weekend hunting trip to eastern Kakheti in 1995.


hunting breakdown

If you enjoy what you read, let Stuart know and pass these links on to your friends. And if you know any agents (or are one yourself), Stuart is actively seeking representation and publication.




updated 18 February 2014