From the left to the right, from the fringe to the centre

The trajectories of Iran's DIY hip-hop culture

Bibliographic Data

ID19590482
AuthorsElham Golpushnezhad (corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume1
Issue3
Pages227-241
Publication date2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDIY Alternative Cultures & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2753-8702 • E-ISSN: 2753-8702
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/27538702231208380
OpenAlexW4388139082
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

This article focuses on Iranian hip-hop's changes between 2009 and 2023. Focusing on ‘resistance hip-hop’, it analyses the established discourse of nationalism within resistance hip-hop songs. The article shows how the newly emerged forms of DIY hip-hop in Iran and the diaspora increasingly lean towards right-wing politics. Mainstream Iranian hip-hop increasingly reinforces a patriarchal, patriotic, and centralizing discourse at the expense of the marginalization of minoritized groups, including women, queers, ethnicities, and nationalities. In addition, the article examines the new developments among the Iranian women who started their careers on the verge of the Women-Life-Freedom movement. Some women artists refuse to reproduce the patriarchal and patriotic discourses dominating recent hip-hop productions; instead, they simultaneously defy the Islamic regime's norms of gender identity and that of the mainstream male-centric pro-nationalist hip-hop

Diaspora · Ethnic group · Mainstream · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society

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