Iran's troubled tunes : music as politics in the Islamic Republic

In this thesis, I argue that in the absence of a free public sphere in Iran over the past three decades, music has provided an important political space where cultural producers and their audiences engage in dialogues over societal, ideational and political values. Both through the substance of thei...

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Main Author: Seyedsayamdost, Nahid
Published: University of Oxford 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606550