Laudan Nooshin
Biographic Data
| ID | 683945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laudan Nooshin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laudan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nooshin |
| SIGNATURE | NOOSHIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8737-5224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions
This volume advances understanding of the nature of current inequalities in the field of classical music production in the Global North, exploring why inequalities continue to exist, and asking what can be done to tackle ongoing exclusions. It constitutes an urgent intervention into these contemporary debates, drawing together ongoing and emergent analyses from scholars, activists, and musicians in a variety of countries across Europe and North A…
Our Angel of Salvation: Toward an Understanding of Iranian Cyberspace as an Alternative Sphere of Musical Sociality
This article explores the emergence of the internet as an alternative sphere of musical circulation, focusing on the case of Iran and specifically certain kinds of music for which the internet has become the primary arena of musical sociality, in some cases replacing its physical public presence entirely. In particular, it asks how the spaces opened up by new media technologies have shifted the conceptual boundaries between public and private. Th…
Whose liberation? Iranian popular music and the fetishization of resistance
This article explores a number of issues concerning the representation of Iranian popular music outside Iran, and specifically the somewhat romanticized discourses of "resistance" and "freedom" that have tended to characterize both journalistic and scholarly writings. The article discusses a number of examples, but focuses primarily on the case of the music video "Happy in Tehran," which was posted on YouTube in 2014 and which challenged certain …
Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia
Contents: Prelude: power and the play of music, Laudan Nooshin 'The artist of the people in the battle': Umm Kulthum's concerts for Egypt in political context, Laura Lohman Abd al-Halim's microphone, Martin Stokes Mediated Qu'ranic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt, Michael Frishkopf Music, politics and nation building in post-Soviet Tajikistan, Federico Spinetti Music and censorship in Afghanistan, 1973-2003, John Ba…
Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music
This essay explores new forms of improvisational practice being developed by Iranian musicians in a tradition where the canonic radif repertoire has been central to improvisational practice for more than a century. I focus on the work of two musicians, Amir Eslami ( nei ) and Hooshyar Khayam (piano), and discuss pieces from their 2010 album All of You (Hermes Records, Iran). This music takes inspiration from the radif but lies outside the radif t…
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music
In her 2001 article on the early music scene in Boston, Kay Kaufman Shelemay offers what she hoped would be 'useful insights into the collapsing musical boundaries in our changing world and the new
Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Discourses in Iran
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Subversion and Countersubversion: Power, Control, and Meaning in the New Iranian Pop Music
On May 23, 1997, a few weeks after Labour’s historic election victory in Britain, another historic election-presidential this time-took place in Iran just as the country’s Revolution was coming of age. Standing on a platform of greater openness internally and reestablishing Iran’s international relations, Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Khatami was swept to power with an overwhelming mandate that gave a real indication of the extent of public support for …
Circumnavigation with a difference? music, representation and the disney experience: It's a small, small world
In the Fantasyland section of the Disneyland Paris theme park is a ride called It's a Small World. Hop aboard the boat and you'll be taken on a leisurely voyage around the world and treated to an aural and visual spectacle of global harmony. Dolls representing people from different countries are dressed in local costume, perform local dances and play local instruments. But the music which accompanies the ride is firmly rooted in Euro-America. Thi…
Improvisation as 'Other: Creativity, Knowledge and Power - The Case of Iranian Classical Music
This article traces the discourses which have dominated the musicological study of creativity over the last 50 years or so, focusing on the concept of improvisation and its relationship to composition, particularly as applied to musics outside the notated Western tradition. Arguing that such discourses have served specific ideological purposes, the author illustrates the ways in which these continue to be implicated in an essentializing and orien…
Shajariān, Mohammad Rezā
The song of the nightingale: Processes of improvisation indastgāh Segāh(Iranian classical music)
Iranian classical music, known in Iran as musiqi‐e assil or musiqi‐e sonnati, is a largely improvised tradition in which the creative role of the individual performing musician is central. This paper examines some of the creative processes involved in the performance of this music, through analyses of different versions of dastgāh Segāh. The paper will also look at some of the concepts and terminology used by musicians in discussing this dimensio…
Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Discourses in Iran
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Improvisation as 'Other: Creativity, Knowledge and Power - The Case of Iranian Classical Music
This article traces the discourses which have dominated the musicological study of creativity over the last 50 years or so, focusing on the concept of improvisation and its relationship to composition, particularly as applied to musics outside the notated Western tradition. Arguing that such discourses have served specific ideological purposes, the author illustrates the ways in which these continue to be implicated in an essentializing and orien…
Whose liberation? Iranian popular music and the fetishization of resistance
This article explores a number of issues concerning the representation of Iranian popular music outside Iran, and specifically the somewhat romanticized discourses of "resistance" and "freedom" that have tended to characterize both journalistic and scholarly writings. The article discusses a number of examples, but focuses primarily on the case of the music video "Happy in Tehran," which was posted on YouTube in 2014 and which challenged certain …
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music
In her 2001 article on the early music scene in Boston, Kay Kaufman Shelemay offers what she hoped would be 'useful insights into the collapsing musical boundaries in our changing world and the new
Circumnavigation with a difference? music, representation and the disney experience: It's a small, small world
In the Fantasyland section of the Disneyland Paris theme park is a ride called It's a Small World. Hop aboard the boat and you'll be taken on a leisurely voyage around the world and treated to an aural and visual spectacle of global harmony. Dolls representing people from different countries are dressed in local costume, perform local dances and play local instruments. But the music which accompanies the ride is firmly rooted in Euro-America. Thi…
Our Angel of Salvation: Toward an Understanding of Iranian Cyberspace as an Alternative Sphere of Musical Sociality
This article explores the emergence of the internet as an alternative sphere of musical circulation, focusing on the case of Iran and specifically certain kinds of music for which the internet has become the primary arena of musical sociality, in some cases replacing its physical public presence entirely. In particular, it asks how the spaces opened up by new media technologies have shifted the conceptual boundaries between public and private. Th…
The song of the nightingale: Processes of improvisation indastgāh Segāh(Iranian classical music)
Iranian classical music, known in Iran as musiqi‐e assil or musiqi‐e sonnati, is a largely improvised tradition in which the creative role of the individual performing musician is central. This paper examines some of the creative processes involved in the performance of this music, through analyses of different versions of dastgāh Segāh. The paper will also look at some of the concepts and terminology used by musicians in discussing this dimensio…
The song of the nightingale: Processes of improvisation indastgāh Segāh(Iranian classical music)
Iranian classical music, known in Iran as musiqi‐e assil or musiqi‐e sonnati, is a largely improvised tradition in which the creative role of the individual performing musician is central. This paper examines some of the creative processes involved in the performance of this music, through analyses of different versions of dastgāh Segāh. The paper will also look at some of the concepts and terminology used by musicians in discussing this dimensio…
Shajariān, Mohammad Rezā
Improvisation as 'Other: Creativity, Knowledge and Power - The Case of Iranian Classical Music
This article traces the discourses which have dominated the musicological study of creativity over the last 50 years or so, focusing on the concept of improvisation and its relationship to composition, particularly as applied to musics outside the notated Western tradition. Arguing that such discourses have served specific ideological purposes, the author illustrates the ways in which these continue to be implicated in an essentializing and orien…
Subversion and Countersubversion: Power, Control, and Meaning in the New Iranian Pop Music
On May 23, 1997, a few weeks after Labour’s historic election victory in Britain, another historic election-presidential this time-took place in Iran just as the country’s Revolution was coming of age. Standing on a platform of greater openness internally and reestablishing Iran’s international relations, Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Khatami was swept to power with an overwhelming mandate that gave a real indication of the extent of public support for …
Circumnavigation with a difference? music, representation and the disney experience: It's a small, small world
In the Fantasyland section of the Disneyland Paris theme park is a ride called It's a Small World. Hop aboard the boat and you'll be taken on a leisurely voyage around the world and treated to an aural and visual spectacle of global harmony. Dolls representing people from different countries are dressed in local costume, perform local dances and play local instruments. But the music which accompanies the ride is firmly rooted in Euro-America. Thi…
Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Discourses in Iran
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music
In her 2001 article on the early music scene in Boston, Kay Kaufman Shelemay offers what she hoped would be 'useful insights into the collapsing musical boundaries in our changing world and the new
Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music
This essay explores new forms of improvisational practice being developed by Iranian musicians in a tradition where the canonic radif repertoire has been central to improvisational practice for more than a century. I focus on the work of two musicians, Amir Eslami ( nei ) and Hooshyar Khayam (piano), and discuss pieces from their 2010 album All of You (Hermes Records, Iran). This music takes inspiration from the radif but lies outside the radif t…
Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia
Contents: Prelude: power and the play of music, Laudan Nooshin 'The artist of the people in the battle': Umm Kulthum's concerts for Egypt in political context, Laura Lohman Abd al-Halim's microphone, Martin Stokes Mediated Qu'ranic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt, Michael Frishkopf Music, politics and nation building in post-Soviet Tajikistan, Federico Spinetti Music and censorship in Afghanistan, 1973-2003, John Ba…
Whose liberation? Iranian popular music and the fetishization of resistance
This article explores a number of issues concerning the representation of Iranian popular music outside Iran, and specifically the somewhat romanticized discourses of "resistance" and "freedom" that have tended to characterize both journalistic and scholarly writings. The article discusses a number of examples, but focuses primarily on the case of the music video "Happy in Tehran," which was posted on YouTube in 2014 and which challenged certain …
Our Angel of Salvation: Toward an Understanding of Iranian Cyberspace as an Alternative Sphere of Musical Sociality
This article explores the emergence of the internet as an alternative sphere of musical circulation, focusing on the case of Iran and specifically certain kinds of music for which the internet has become the primary arena of musical sociality, in some cases replacing its physical public presence entirely. In particular, it asks how the spaces opened up by new media technologies have shifted the conceptual boundaries between public and private. Th…
Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions
This volume advances understanding of the nature of current inequalities in the field of classical music production in the Global North, exploring why inequalities continue to exist, and asking what can be done to tackle ongoing exclusions. It constitutes an urgent intervention into these contemporary debates, drawing together ongoing and emergent analyses from scholars, activists, and musicians in a variety of countries across Europe and North A…
Art (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works)