Reverberations of Dissent - Identity and Expression in Iran's Illegal Music Scene

Zusatztext "Engaged in the underground scene as a musician and an ethnomusicologist, Bronwen Robertson introduces us to the musicians whose lives form the communities of dissent in modern Iran. The reverberations sounded by Iran's popular-music underground and captured in this remarkable book will resonate for readers seeking to understand the Middle East in the present era of unprecedented cultural and political change." —Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago, Author of Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe (Routledge 2011) Informationen zum Autor Dr. Bronwen Robertson received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is currently the research manager and editor for Small Media in London and is working with her team to increase the flow of information into and out of Iran. Highly original research into Iran's unofficial rock music scene in an ever-changing and notoriously unstable political climate. Vorwort Highly original research into Iran's unofficial rock music scene in an ever-changing and notoriously unstable political climate.  Zusammenfassung Beneath the ever-changing and unstable political climate of Iran lies a rich youth culture centered around rock music. Reaching beyond a social, historical and political overview of music, Bronwen Robertson looks deeper and seeks to  decipher how members of the underground scene invent and express different versions of ‘being Iranian,' through the production and distribution of their music. Robertson spent a year undercover in Tehran conducting research and interviews within this complex and fascinating culture. While the author explores each individual's relationship to their music, she also demonstrates how the underground scene as a whole becomes an expression of collective and anti-authoritarian identities. Robertson discusses concepts ranging from inspiration and ingenuity to the notion of being ‘global,' and how these musicians perceive their political and artistic impact. This illuminating work demonstrates that rock music, a global genre, gains significance as it is performed in a local context, disrupting pre-conceived notions of what it means to be ‘Iranian.'  Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One. A Political Overview: From King to Clergy - Like father, like son?  The Pahlavi dynasty and its downfall - The new constitution, contradictions and conflicts of interest - Repression and resistance: 30 years of two steps forward and one shove back - Let's party like it's 680 AD - Conclusion Chapter Two. Music in Iran: From Pop to Pariah - Musical monarchies and poetic politics - A history of pop music in Iran - Conclusion Chapter Three. Music and Islam - Pop music and illegality in the Islamic Republic of Iran - In the shadows of an Islamised pop industry - ‘Illusions' of grandeur and rock's rebirth in the Islamic Republic - Conclusion Chapter Four. Boulevard of Virtual Dreams: TehranAvenue's Online Music Festival - TAMF: History and goals of the festival - TAMF86, a free radical? - Participating and observing Chapter Five. Inventing Identity through Significant Songs: Case Studies of Selected Participants from TAMF86 Online Music Festival - Gatchpazh - Bijan Moosavi - Free Keys - Yellow Dogs - Kian -What's in it for us? - Conclusion Chapter Six. Smoggy + City = Dirty Rock? - Introduction - Orchestrations of identity: composing the ‘self' in terms of local and global ideas about ‘Iranian-ness' - ‘Environmental determinism' - Conclusion Chapter Seven. ‘I Am an Original Iranian Man': Inventing Inventive Identities in Tehran's Unofficial Rock Music -  Writing ...

Product details

• Authors: Bronwen Robertson
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2012
• EAN: 9781441123251
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-2325-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock