1. The Politics of Music
2. The Nightingale Rebels
3. The Musical Guide: Mohammad Reza Shajarian
4. Revolution and Ruptures
5. Opening the Floodgates to Pop Music: Alireza Assar
6. The Rebirth of Independent Music
7. Purposefully Fālsh: Mohsen Namjoo
8. Going Underground
9. Rap-e Farsi: Hichkas
10. The Music of Politics
Nahid Siamdoust is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. She has taught at Oxford University and New York University, and previously worked as a journalist based in Iran and the Middle East for Time magazine, Der Spiegel, and Al Jazeera English TV.
"Nahid Siamdoust's beautiful writing paints a vivid portrait of the
struggles over popular music in the Islamic Republic and brings to
life some of the most unique and colorful characters in Iranian
society today. An instant classic that will launch conversations on
Iran and contemporary popular music globally." —Mark LeVine, author
of Heavy Metal Islam
"Nahid Siamdoust's Soundtrack of the Revolution is a groundbreaking
study of a potent cultural register in post-revolutionary Iran. For
both the casual reader and the aficionado, Siamdoust's pioneering
insights are revelatory."—Hamid Dabashi, author of Iran: A People
Interrupted
"Music is the language of liberation. Nahid Siamdoust, who knows
all the players and has taken personal risks to tell this story,
has written a lovely tribute to the courage and creativity of
Iran's musicians. This is a book that, like Iran itself, is filled
with hope and sadness—and the universal human desire for
freedom."—Joe Klein, Time Magazine
"Siamdoust manages to capture valuable qualities about the practice
of popular music in Iran in depth, while also covering a broad
period. This is a premium resource for students and researchers at
the intersection of popular music and politics. Overall, it is an
eye-opening and enjoyable work."—Amin Hashemi, Middle East Journal
of Culture and Communication
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