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Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond book cover

1st Edition

Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond

By GJ Breyley, Sasan Fatemi Copyright 2016
230 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba , meaning ‘to make happy.’ Originally denoting all musicians in Iran, motrebi came to be associated, pejoratively, with the cheerful vulgarity of the lowbrow entertainer. In Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment, GJ Breyley and Sasan Fatemi examine the historically overlooked motrebi milieu, with its marginalized characters,... Read more

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

Biography

GJ Breyley is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at Monash University and convener of the Central and West Asia and Diasporas research network.

Sasan Fatemi is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Tehran, Iran, and editor of Mahoor Quarterly.

"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

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