College of the Arts
Subversive Sounds: Music and Authoritarianism in Modern Iran
Led by Payam Yousefi · School of Music
What we study
Dr. Yousefi's project Subversive Sounds draws on eight years of ethnographic fieldwork to ask how musicians' practices shape social movements in Iran. A long-running companion project looks at female vocalists in Iran who built careers despite the 1979 ban on women's public solo singing.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Reading, writing & theory
- Human participants
- Projects
- 2
Current projects
Subversive Sounds: Music and Authoritarianism in Modern Iran
Fieldwork on how musicians' practices shape social movements in Iran.
Female vocalists in Iran
A long-term study of women singers working despite a ban on solo performance.
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