Roshanak Kheshti
Biographic Data
| ID | 189023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roshanak Kheshti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roshanak |
| FAMILY NAME | Kheshti |
| SIGNATURE | KHESHTI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Ethnic Studies |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-6290-6072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Listening to Trans Sound
A deeply personal and theoretical exploration of trans sound, an expansive concept that spans gender, nation, language, and music, this essay links trans sound not only to music by trans people but also to modes of listening and orientation that are trans—meaning across, beyond, or through gender, language, and nation. The piece also unpacks the Orientalist reception of Ottoman music in Europe, where the “singing Turk” represented hypermasculine …
Zora Neale Hurston's synesthetic ethnography
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora
This article examines the intersection between diasporic melancholia, dance, and world music. These phenomena coalesce at postcolonial discos, or public gatherings where political movement takes the form of dance, sound, and eros. I explore the network that connects various times and places to this fantastical dreamland of a sonic postcolonial future and the DJs and producers who keep those records spinning. Focusing especially on the queer and f…
Sound Studies
Rediscovery: Making music American at Folkways Records
An ex-convict singing children’s songs...No other label would have touched this but Moe was fearless in that way. The album was a success.-Pete Seeger Moses Asch told me that he was trying to record
Performing Variant Selves over Time
Book Review| October 01 2015 Performing Variant Selves over Time: Deciphering Trans and Same-Sex-Desiring Subjectivities in Contemporary Iran Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran. Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 432 pp. Roshanak Kheshti Roshanak Kheshti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 676–678. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3123773 V…
On the Threshold of the Political
Protests erupted throughout Iran in 2009 after incumbent Mahmood Ahmadinejad was declared winner of a highly disputed presidential race. The so-called "Green Wave" of protest included violent clashes with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the jailing of protesters and journalists, as well as injuries and casualties. Few foreign journalists were granted visas to enter the country, resulting in an information vacuum filled by so-called "citizen jour…
Can the Memoirist Speak? Representing Iranian Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Recent Popular and Scholarly Publications
Can the Memoirist Speak? Representing Iranian Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Recent Popular and Scholarly Publications Roshanak Kheshti Books Discussed in This Article Between WarriorBrotherand Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patri archy in Iran. By Minoo Moallem. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Rethinking Global Sisterhood: WesternFeminism and Iran. By Nima Naghibi. Minneap olis: University of Minnesota…
Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry
Focusing on Kinship Records and the two years of ethnographic fieldwork I performed there, this essay develops the theory of the “aural imaginary” in an effort to deconstruct the centrality of racialized gender to the formation of the American world music culture industry. In doing so, I illuminate an aural imaginary particular to the production of a market for world music in the United States, suggesting ways to understand how this market is bei…
Acoustigraphy: Soundscape as Ethnographic Field
Inversion, Signifiance and the Loss of the Self in Sound
Cross-Dressing and Gender (Tres)Passing: The Transgender Move as a Site of Agential Potential in the New Iranian Cinema
This article traces the historical becoming of the contemporary supersaturation of images of queer and transgendered Iran through the narrative and tropic devices introduced by filmmakers in the past twenty years. I argue that the censorship code enforced by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is partly responsible for the formation of what has come to be a ubiquitous figure in the New Iranian cinema: the “cross-dressing” or “passing” fi…
Musical Miscegenation and the Logic of Rock and Roll: "Homosocial Desire and Racial Productivity in "A Paler Shade of White
I've spent the past decade wondering why rock and roll, the most miscegenated popular music ever to have existed, underwent a racial re-sorting in the nineteen-nineties. Why did so many white rock bands retreat from the ecstatic singing and intense, voicelike guitar tones of the blues, the heavy African downbeat, and the elaborate showmanship that characterized black music of the mid-twentieth century? Sasha Frere-Jones, A Paler Shade of White
On the Threshold of the Political
Protests erupted throughout Iran in 2009 after incumbent Mahmood Ahmadinejad was declared winner of a highly disputed presidential race. The so-called "Green Wave" of protest included violent clashes with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the jailing of protesters and journalists, as well as injuries and casualties. Few foreign journalists were granted visas to enter the country, resulting in an information vacuum filled by so-called "citizen jour…
Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry
Focusing on Kinship Records and the two years of ethnographic fieldwork I performed there, this essay develops the theory of the “aural imaginary” in an effort to deconstruct the centrality of racialized gender to the formation of the American world music culture industry. In doing so, I illuminate an aural imaginary particular to the production of a market for world music in the United States, suggesting ways to understand how this market is bei…
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora
This article examines the intersection between diasporic melancholia, dance, and world music. These phenomena coalesce at postcolonial discos, or public gatherings where political movement takes the form of dance, sound, and eros. I explore the network that connects various times and places to this fantastical dreamland of a sonic postcolonial future and the DJs and producers who keep those records spinning. Focusing especially on the queer and f…
Can the Memoirist Speak? Representing Iranian Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Recent Popular and Scholarly Publications
Can the Memoirist Speak? Representing Iranian Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Recent Popular and Scholarly Publications Roshanak Kheshti Books Discussed in This Article Between WarriorBrotherand Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patri archy in Iran. By Minoo Moallem. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Rethinking Global Sisterhood: WesternFeminism and Iran. By Nima Naghibi. Minneap olis: University of Minnesota…
Cross-Dressing and Gender (Tres)Passing: The Transgender Move as a Site of Agential Potential in the New Iranian Cinema
This article traces the historical becoming of the contemporary supersaturation of images of queer and transgendered Iran through the narrative and tropic devices introduced by filmmakers in the past twenty years. I argue that the censorship code enforced by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is partly responsible for the formation of what has come to be a ubiquitous figure in the New Iranian cinema: the “cross-dressing” or “passing” fi…
Musical Miscegenation and the Logic of Rock and Roll: "Homosocial Desire and Racial Productivity in "A Paler Shade of White
I've spent the past decade wondering why rock and roll, the most miscegenated popular music ever to have existed, underwent a racial re-sorting in the nineteen-nineties. Why did so many white rock bands retreat from the ecstatic singing and intense, voicelike guitar tones of the blues, the heavy African downbeat, and the elaborate showmanship that characterized black music of the mid-twentieth century? Sasha Frere-Jones, A Paler Shade of White
Acoustigraphy: Soundscape as Ethnographic Field
Inversion, Signifiance and the Loss of the Self in Sound
Cross-Dressing and Gender (Tres)Passing: The Transgender Move as a Site of Agential Potential in the New Iranian Cinema
This article traces the historical becoming of the contemporary supersaturation of images of queer and transgendered Iran through the narrative and tropic devices introduced by filmmakers in the past twenty years. I argue that the censorship code enforced by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is partly responsible for the formation of what has come to be a ubiquitous figure in the New Iranian cinema: the “cross-dressing” or “passing” fi…
Musical Miscegenation and the Logic of Rock and Roll: "Homosocial Desire and Racial Productivity in "A Paler Shade of White
I've spent the past decade wondering why rock and roll, the most miscegenated popular music ever to have existed, underwent a racial re-sorting in the nineteen-nineties. Why did so many white rock bands retreat from the ecstatic singing and intense, voicelike guitar tones of the blues, the heavy African downbeat, and the elaborate showmanship that characterized black music of the mid-twentieth century? Sasha Frere-Jones, A Paler Shade of White
Acoustigraphy: Soundscape as Ethnographic Field
Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry
Focusing on Kinship Records and the two years of ethnographic fieldwork I performed there, this essay develops the theory of the “aural imaginary” in an effort to deconstruct the centrality of racialized gender to the formation of the American world music culture industry. In doing so, I illuminate an aural imaginary particular to the production of a market for world music in the United States, suggesting ways to understand how this market is bei…
Can the Memoirist Speak? Representing Iranian Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Recent Popular and Scholarly Publications
Can the Memoirist Speak? Representing Iranian Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Recent Popular and Scholarly Publications Roshanak Kheshti Books Discussed in This Article Between WarriorBrotherand Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patri archy in Iran. By Minoo Moallem. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Rethinking Global Sisterhood: WesternFeminism and Iran. By Nima Naghibi. Minneap olis: University of Minnesota…
Performing Variant Selves over Time
Book Review| October 01 2015 Performing Variant Selves over Time: Deciphering Trans and Same-Sex-Desiring Subjectivities in Contemporary Iran Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran. Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 432 pp. Roshanak Kheshti Roshanak Kheshti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 676–678. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3123773 V…
On the Threshold of the Political
Protests erupted throughout Iran in 2009 after incumbent Mahmood Ahmadinejad was declared winner of a highly disputed presidential race. The so-called "Green Wave" of protest included violent clashes with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the jailing of protesters and journalists, as well as injuries and casualties. Few foreign journalists were granted visas to enter the country, resulting in an information vacuum filled by so-called "citizen jour…
Rediscovery: Making music American at Folkways Records
An ex-convict singing children’s songs...No other label would have touched this but Moe was fearless in that way. The album was a success.-Pete Seeger Moses Asch told me that he was trying to record
Sound Studies
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora
This article examines the intersection between diasporic melancholia, dance, and world music. These phenomena coalesce at postcolonial discos, or public gatherings where political movement takes the form of dance, sound, and eros. I explore the network that connects various times and places to this fantastical dreamland of a sonic postcolonial future and the DJs and producers who keep those records spinning. Focusing especially on the queer and f…
Listening to Trans Sound
A deeply personal and theoretical exploration of trans sound, an expansive concept that spans gender, nation, language, and music, this essay links trans sound not only to music by trans people but also to modes of listening and orientation that are trans—meaning across, beyond, or through gender, language, and nation. The piece also unpacks the Orientalist reception of Ottoman music in Europe, where the “singing Turk” represented hypermasculine …
Zora Neale Hurston's synesthetic ethnography
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