Jazz and its Social Meanings in Iran: From Cultural Colonialism to the Universal
Jazz and its Social Meanings in Iran: From Cultural Colonialism to the
Universal. In: P. Bohlman, P. Goffredo & T. Jackson (Eds.), Jazz Worlds/World Jazz. (pp. 125-149).
USA: Chicago University Press. ISBN 9780226236032
by Laudan Nooshin
By the 1960s, a great deal of popular music from Europe and the United
States was available and well known in Iran. In addition, a local industry
also emerged at this time, producing a new kind of westernized and massmediated
Iranian pop music that was heavily promoted by the government
and eventually came to dominate Iran’s soundscapes. Compared to pop music,
jazz was fairly peripheral…
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