Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian

Description: Tehrangeles Dreaming by Farzaneh Hemmasi Farzaneh Hemmasi draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles and musical and textual analysis to examine how the pop music, music videos, and television made by Iranian expatriates express modes of Iranianness not possible in Iran. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Irans 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 Irans geographical, legal, and moral boundaries while allowing all Iranians the ability to imagine new forms of identity and belonging. Author Biography Farzaneh Hemmasi is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. Table of Contents 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 Review "In this important book Farzaneh Hemmasi offers a novel reading of Iranian exilic pop music, raising insightful conceptual questions about the notion and significance of pop culture and diasporic imagination. By taking pop music seriously, she opens up a space for conversations about transnational networks of artistic production, the construction of nationhood and nationalism, and the politics of identity." -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, author of * Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment *"Tehrangeles Dreaming deftly analyzes what circulates and translates around and across this most complex and refractive of diasporic spaces. It is a subtle book, a model of how to weave popular music and dance into a field still largely dominated by film and literature. And a real pleasure to read. That shesh-o-hasht groove can be felt on every page." -- Martin Stokes, author of * The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music *"Farzaneh Hemmasis book is a deft and insightful analysis of Tehrangeles, viewed as a geography, a music scene, a pop industry, a transnational cultural production field, and a post-revolutionary diasporic cultural formation…. Conceptually rich, theoretically nuanced, with its lucid demonstrations of the mobilization of affect, Hemmasis Tehrangeles Dreaming makes a valuable contribution to a wide range of scholarship." -- Mehdi Semati * Cultural Studies *"Tehrangeles Dreaming offers a compellingly argued and accessibly written ethnography of exile, cultural production, and the politics of identity in the Iranian context. It no doubt will be useful for those in ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural studies, and Middle East Studies..." -- Amy Malek * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"[Tehrangeles Dreaming] is an invaluable contribution to the study of Iranian popular culture.... Hemmasi is a truly powerful narrator in her ethnographic work and she provides a profoundly deep and pointed analysis...." -- Siavash Rokni * Lateral *"[Tehrangeles Dreaming] is particularly interesting when it discusses the impact of Tehrangeles pop on Iranians within, in political, social and moral terms.... The writing is engaging, filled with stories about fieldwork and encounters." -- Laetitia Nanquette * Abstracta Iranica *"Tehrangeles Dreaming makes significant contributions to the scholarship on both American musical multiculturalism and the music of the Islamic world. . . . Farzaneh Hemmesi is to be commended for her clear and captivating first book." -- Anna K. Rasmussen * Journal of Anthropological Research * Review Quote " Tehrangeles Dreaming offers a compellingly argued and accessibly written ethnography of exile, cultural production, and the politics of identity in the Iranian context. It no doubt will be useful for those in ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural studies, and Middle East Studies..." Details ISBN1478008369 Author Farzaneh Hemmasi Publisher Duke University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1478008369 ISBN-13 9781478008361 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Intimacy and Imagination in Southern Californias Iranian Pop Music Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 40 illustrations Pages 264 Publication Date 2020-04-10 Short Title Tehrangeles Dreaming Language English UK Release Date 2020-04-10 AU Release Date 2020-04-10 NZ Release Date 2020-04-10 US Release Date 2020-04-10 Edited by Christopher E. Swide Birth 1974 Affiliation European University Viadrina, Germany Position journalist Qualifications Ph.D. Alternative 9781478007906 DEWEY 781.63089915507949 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131536181;

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