Tehrangeles Dreaming

Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music

Farzaneh Hemmasi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0836-1 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Los Angeles, called Tehrangeles because it is home to the largest concentration of Iranians outside of Iran, is the birthplace of a distinctive form of postrevolutionary pop music. Created by professional musicians and media producers fleeing Iran's revolutionary-era ban on “immoral” popular music, Tehrangeles pop has been a part of daily life for Iranians at home and abroad for decades. In Tehrangeles Dreaming Farzaneh Hemmasi draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles and musical and textual analysis to examine how the songs, music videos, and television made in Tehrangeles express modes of Iranianness not possible in Iran. Exploring Tehrangeles pop producers' complex commercial and political positioning and the histories, sensations, and fantasies their music makes available to global Iranian audiences, Hemmasi shows how unquestionably Iranian forms of Tehrangeles popular culture exemplify the manner in which culture, media, and diaspora combine to respond to the Iranian state and its political transformations. The transnational circulation of Tehrangeles culture, she contends, transgresses Iran's geographical, legal, and moral boundaries while allowing all Iranians the ability to imagine new forms of identity and belonging.

Farzaneh Hemmasi is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Capital of 6/8 38
2. Iranian Popular Music and History: Views from Tehrangeles 67
3. Expatriate Erotics, Homeland Moralities 98
4. Iran as a Singing Woman 122
5. A Nation in Recovery 153
Conclusion: Forty Years 186
Notes 201
References 223
Index 235

Erscheinungsdatum	15.04.2020
Zusatzinfo	40 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4780-0836-9 / 1478008369
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0836-1 / 9781478008361
Zustand	Neuware