Young Iranian musician Parvaz Homay draws on classical Persian music and poetry, but he offers his own interpretations and also writes original lyrics that have disturbed government officials to the ...

An important distinction between Western classical music and Iranian music is the differences in their structure of developing melody, as well as their storytelling approaches, Paranj said. Likewise, ...

DUBAI, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who revived Iranian classical music and became a symbol for the opposition after a wave of unrest in 2009, has died in a Tehran hospital at the age of ...

In the 1980s and '90s, following the Iranian Revolution, Los Angeles became the epicenter of Iranian pop music. A new album, Tehrangeles Vice, collects hits from some of the city's notable bands.

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

"This music was meant to be heard at a party while dancing and drinking in Tehrangeles," said Discotchari label co-founder Zachary Asdourian. "But for citizens of Iran, this was giving hope as bombs ...

Welcome to Scene Report where we highlight significant, underground scenes and subcultures across the globe. Azadi Sedaa, or voice of freedom, is an autonomous and anonymous international collective ...

“The story behind every music ensemble is always the music,” says Sina Fakhroddin. For Iranian-Kurdish composer and percussionist Fakhroddin, it’s also a place for pulling different strings—from the ...

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TEHRAN, Iran -- Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned all Western music from Iran's state radio and TV stations -- an eerie reminder of the 1979 Islamic revolution when popular music was ...

It has been three months since protests broke out in Iran against the country’s Islamic regime. This resistance movement was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the government’s ...