Table of Contents

Foreword Anthony Shay Chapter 1: "Producing Pleasure:" Tehran’s Motreb and Ruhowzi Chapter 2: Contradictory Characters and Marginalization: From Luti to Gardan Koloft and Mashti Chapter 3: The Repertoires of Motrebi Music Chapter 4: The Evolution of the Motrebi Milieu Chapter 5: The Evolution of Iranian Popular Music Chapter 6: Before the Revolution: Television, "the West" and "Modernity" (1965-79) Chapter 7: After the Revolution: The Los Angeles Factor (1979-97) Chapter 8: Made in Iran: New Popular Music (1997-2014) Conclusion

About the Author

Sasan Fatemi is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Tehran. Gay Breyley is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Music-Conservatorium at Monash University, Australia.

Reviews

"An outstanding contribution to our understanding of the mediation of music...in Tehran, across significant revolutionary/social/political... periods of change" IASPM-ANZ, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Australia New Zealand