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Tehrangeles Dreaming

Farzaneh Hemmasi

Author : Farzaneh Hemmasi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478012009

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Tehrangeles Dreaming by Farzaneh Hemmasi Pdf

Los Angeles, called Tehrangeles because it is home to the largest concentration of Iranians outside of Iran, is the birthplace of a distinctive form of postrevolutionary pop music. Created by professional musicians and media producers fleeing Iran's revolutionary-era ban on “immoral” popular music, Tehrangeles pop has been a part of daily life for Iranians at home and abroad for decades. In Tehrangeles Dreaming Farzaneh Hemmasi draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles and musical and textual analysis to examine how the songs, music videos, and television made in Tehrangeles express modes of Iranianness not possible in Iran. Exploring Tehrangeles pop producers' complex commercial and political positioning and the histories, sensations, and fantasies their music makes available to global Iranian audiences, Hemmasi shows how unquestionably Iranian forms of Tehrangeles popular culture exemplify the manner in which culture, media, and diaspora combine to respond to the Iranian state and its political transformations. The transnational circulation of Tehrangeles culture, she contends, transgresses Iran's geographical, legal, and moral boundaries while allowing all Iranians the ability to imagine new forms of identity and belonging.

America's Changing Neighborhoods [3 volumes]

Reed Ueda

Author : Reed Ueda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1295 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440828652

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America's Changing Neighborhoods [3 volumes] by Reed Ueda Pdf

A unique panoramic survey of ethnic groups throughout the United States that explores the diverse communities in every region, state, and big city. Race, ethnicity, and immigrants' lives and identity: these are all key topics that Americans need to study in order to fully understand U.S. culture, society, politics, economics, and history. Learning about "place" through our own historical and contemporary neighborhoods is an ideal way to better grasp the important role of race and ethnicity in the United States. This reference work comprehensively covers both historical and contemporary ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods through A–Z entries that explore the places and people in every major U.S. region and neighborhood. America's Changing Neighborhoods: An Exploration of Diversity uniquely combines the history of ethnic groups with the history of communities, offering an interdisciplinary examination of the nation's makeup. It gives readers perspective and insight into ethnicity and race based on the geography of enclaves across the nation, in regions and in specific cities or localized areas within a city. Among the entries are nearly 200 "neighborhood biographies" that provide histories of local communities and their ethnic groups. Images, sidebars, cross-references at the end of each entry, and cross-indexing of entries serve readers conducting preliminary as well as in-depth research. The book's state-by-state entries also offer population data, and an appendix of ancestry statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau details ethnic and racial diversity.

The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East

Joe F. Khalil,Gholam Khiabany,Tourya Guaaybess,Bilge Yesil

Author : Joe F. Khalil,Gholam Khiabany,Tourya Guaaybess,Bilge Yesil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119637080

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The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East by Joe F. Khalil,Gholam Khiabany,Tourya Guaaybess,Bilge Yesil Pdf

The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the profound and complex changes shaping the 21st century. With trans-regional contributions from established and emerging scholars, this ground-breaking volume offers conceptual essays and in-depth chapters that present rich analyses grounded in historical and geopolitical contexts, as well as key theory and empirical research. Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, competing histories in the region, and pressing socio-economic and media debates. Additionally, the Handbook explores the impact of regional and international politics on Middle Eastern cultures and media. Designed to serve as a foundation for the next era of research in the field, The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East is essential reading for all academics, scholars, and media practitioners. Its comprehensive scope makes it an excellent primary or supplementary textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in global studies, media and communication, journalism, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and history.

Tehrangeles

Ben Cuddon

Author : Ben Cuddon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721794549

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As featured on KIRN 670AM Persian Radio Los Angeles. Iran, 1979. The US-backed monarchy is overthrown in the biggest popular revolution in human history. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians leave the country. And where do the largest number go? Los Angeles. Tehrangeles tells the story of this migration and the community that has evolved as a result: the real estate moguls, the popstars, the opulent elites of Beverly Hills, plus ordinary people trying to find a home and an identity in America. Told through the eyes of its hapless narrator Josh, an American student who has fallen in love with an Iranian girl at college, Tehrangeles is simultaneously a hilarious romantic comedy and an exploration of one of the most important immigrant communities in America. If you liked the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding or the reality series Shahs of Sunset, you'll be fascinated by Tehrangeles. All proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to support Climate Ed (www.climateed.net), a charity educating children about climate change.

Iranian Culture

Nasrin Rahimieh

Author : Nasrin Rahimieh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317429357

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Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilisation, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted, the representations and avocations of Iranian identity vary amongst Iranians across the world. Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity demonstrates these fissures and the incompatibilities that refuse to be written out of national culture, analysing works of literature, popular music, graphic art and film, as well as oral narratives. Using works produced before and after the 1979 revolution, created both inside and outside of Iran, this study reveals neglected complexities and contradictions in the field of Iranian cultural production. It considers how contested claims to culture, whether they originated in Iran or the Iranian diaspora, shape our understanding of this culture and what spaces they create for new articulations of it, and in doing so offers an important re-examination of our collective concept of culture. This book would be an excellent resource for students and scholars of Middle East Studies and Iranian Studies, specifically Iranian culture including film and contemporary literature and the Iranian diaspora.

Iran's Influence

Elaheh Rostami-Povey

Author : Elaheh Rostami-Povey
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848139176

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Iran's Influence by Elaheh Rostami-Povey Pdf

There is a saying in Arabic, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin against the outsider. Iran's Influence is the first comprehensive analysis of the role that Iran plays both in Middle Eastern and global politics. Expert Iranian author Elaheh Rostami Povey provides a much-needed account of one of the Middle East's most controversial and misunderstood countries. Based on several years of original research carried out in Iran and across the Middle East, this insightful guide presents not only a fascinating introduction to the country, but also essential new ideas to help the reader understand the Middle East.

Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment

GJ Breyley,Sasan Fatemi

Author : GJ Breyley,Sasan Fatemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317336808

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Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment by GJ Breyley,Sasan Fatemi Pdf

The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba, meaning ‘to make happy.’ Originally denoting all musicians in Iran, motrebi came to be associated, pejoratively, with the cheerful vulgarity of the lowbrow entertainer. In Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment, GJ Breyley and Sasan Fatemi examine the historically overlooked motrebi milieu, with its marginalized characters, from luti to gardan koloft and mashti, as well as the tenacity of motreb who continued their careers against all odds. They then turn to losanjelesi, the most pervasive form of Iranian popular music that developed as motrebi declined, and related musical forms in Iran and its diasporic popular cultural centre, Los Angeles. For the first time in English, the book makes available musical transcriptions, analysis and lyrics that illustrate the complexities of this history. As it presents the findings of the authors’ years of ethnographic work with the history’s protagonists, from senior motreb to pop-rock stars, the book reveals parallels between the decline of motrebi and the rise of ‘modernity.’ In the twentieth century, the fate of Tehran’s motrebi music was shaped by the social and urban polarization that ensued from the modern market economy, and losanjelesi would be similarly affected by transnational relations, revolution, war and migration. Through its detailed and informed examination of Iranian popular music, this study reveals much about the values and anxieties of Iranian society, and is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Iranian society and history.

Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance

Somaya Sami Sabry

Author : Somaya Sami Sabry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857719744

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Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance by Somaya Sami Sabry Pdf

The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry argues that the Arab-American experience has been powerfully shaped by racial discourse and Orientalism, and is further complicated today by hostility towards Arabs in post-9/11 America. She shows how Arab-American women writers and performers confront and subvert racial stereotypes in this charged context by recasting representations of Sheherazade. Shedding new light on Arab-American women's negotiations of identity, this book will be indispensable for all those interested in the Arab-American world, American ethnic studies and race, as well as diaspora studies, women's studies, literature, cultural studies and performance studies.

Know Thine Enemy

Edward Shirley

Author : Edward Shirley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429711145

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Know Thine Enemy by Edward Shirley Pdf

This book gives an account of Shirley's trip into Iran as a spy to provide an insight into Iranian character. It is a vivid, firsthand portrait of the clash of Western and Muslim civilizations. The book portrays Iranians in a way different from what the most Americans know about them.

Brown Album

Porochista Khakpour

Author : Porochista Khakpour
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525564713

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Brown Album by Porochista Khakpour Pdf

From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment. Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA, her own family's modest life and culture, and becoming an assimilated American. Porochista rebels--she bleaches her hair and flees to the East Coast, where she finds her community: other people writing and thinking at the fringes. But, 9/11 happens and with horror, Porochista watches from her apartment window as the towers fall. Extremism and fear of the Middle East rises in the aftermath and then again with the election of Donald Trump. Porochista is forced to finally grapple with what it means to be Middle-Eastern and Iranian, an immigrant, and a refugee in our country today. Brown Album is a stirring collection of essays, at times humorous and at times profound, drawn from more than a decade of Porochista's work and with new material included. Altogether, it reveals the tolls that immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joys that life can give.

Psychoanalytic Geographies

Paul Kingsbury,Steve Pile

Author : Paul Kingsbury,Steve Pile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317073932

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Psychoanalytic Geographies by Paul Kingsbury,Steve Pile Pdf

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically. Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace geographical imaginations and a commitment toward spatial thinking, this book demonstrates the breadth, depth, and vitality of cutting edge work in psychoanalytic geographies and presents readers with as wide a set of options as possible for taking psychoanalysis forward in their own work. It covers a wide range of themes and perspectives in terms of theoretical approaches such as Freudian, Lacanian, Kristevan, and Irigarayian; conceptual issues such as space, power, identity, culture, political economy, colonialism, ethics, and aesthetics; disciplinary insights including Geography, English, Sexuality Studies, and History of Science; as well as empirical contexts such as the reception of psychoanalysis in early twentieth century England, psychoanalytic geographies of violence and creativity in a small Mexican city, visual cultures of second-generation Iranian artists living in Los Angeles, and the hysterical underpinnings of climate change scepticism.

Dancing with the Devil

Carl Douglass

Author : Carl Douglass
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594334610

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Dancing with the Devil by Carl Douglass Pdf

Dancing with the Devil is the second book in the trilogy, The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast, by Carl Douglass. The determined senior officials of the Iranian government present their progress to the Supreme Leader who is highly displeased with the effort and the accomplishment. He urges them to create a nuclear weapon with promises and veiled threats. The members of the U.S. ultrasecret Iran Nuclear Weapons Interdiction Project meet to find a way—any way—to prevent the religious extremists from getting a bomb. The two opposing forces drive inexorably towards an ultimate crisis, and Dr. Afsoon Mouradipour and Dr. Gideon Emmanuel Rothsberger are caught in the vortex of the whirlwind created by the two polar opposite forces converging on them. Despite the obstacles and the improbability of success, Afsoon agrees to become the Trojan Horse; and Gideon falls in love.

Iran Agenda

Reese Erlich,Robert Scheer

Author : Reese Erlich,Robert Scheer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317257370

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Iran Agenda by Reese Erlich,Robert Scheer Pdf

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

At the Threshold

Rana Esfandiary

Author : Rana Esfandiary
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000984644

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This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine “Iranian-ness” in the context of Iran’s local, regional, and global position. This study identifies the important social and political interventions made by theatrical and performance pieces, visual art, and electronic music that articulate and reformulate Iranian-ness by breaking away from fixed and constructed stereotypes projected on them by both the Islamic regime and Western power. This book explores the reception and context within which artworks become meaningful performative acts. Looking closely at the works of a notable female Iranian photographer, Shadi Ghadirian, in conjunction with the new generation of Iranian nonconformist artists/activists such as Tahmineh Monzavi and Hedieh Ahmadi; the visionary theatre productions of Ali Akbar Alizad; and radically untraditional sound/noise of the electronic music movement in Tehran, this book calls attention to the Iran-based artists who are tirelessly trying to raise awareness regarding the political violence imposed on Iranian identity at the legal (top-down) and everyday (bottom-up) levels. This volume will be of great interest to student and scholars in theatre and performance, photography, art, music, sociology, and politics.

Sons and Other Flammable Objects

Porochista Khakpour

Author : Porochista Khakpour
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555848590

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Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour Pdf

The Iranian-American author’s award-winning debut examines an immigrant’s coming of age with “punchy conversation, vivid detail [and] sharp humor” (The New York Times Book Review). Growing up in the United States, Xerxes Adam’s understanding of his Iranian heritage vacillates from typical teenage embarrassment to something so tragic it can barely be spoken. His father, Darius, is obsessed with his own exile, and fantasizes about a nonexistent daughter he can relate to better than his living son. His mother changes her name and tries to make friends. But neither of them helps Xerxes make sense of the terrifying, violent last moments in a homeland he barely remembers. As Xerxes grows up and moves to New York City, his major goal in life is to completely separate from his parents. But after the attacks of September 11th change New York forever, and Xerxes meets a beautiful half-Iranian girl on the roof of his building, he begins to realize that his heritage will never let him go. Winner of the California Book Award Silver Medal in First Fiction, Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering, redemption, and the role of memory in making peace with our worlds. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

Tehrangeles

Tehrangeles Dreaming by Farzaneh Hemmasi Pdf

America's Changing Neighborhoods [3 volumes] by Reed Ueda Pdf

The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East by Joe F. Khalil,Gholam Khiabany,Tourya Guaaybess,Bilge Yesil Pdf

Tehrangeles by Ben Cuddon Pdf

Iranian Culture by Nasrin Rahimieh Pdf

Iran's Influence by Elaheh Rostami-Povey Pdf

Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment by GJ Breyley,Sasan Fatemi Pdf

Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance by Somaya Sami Sabry Pdf

Know Thine Enemy by Edward Shirley Pdf

Brown Album by Porochista Khakpour Pdf

Psychoanalytic Geographies by Paul Kingsbury,Steve Pile Pdf

Dancing with the Devil by Carl Douglass Pdf

Iran Agenda by Reese Erlich,Robert Scheer Pdf

At the Threshold by Rana Esfandiary Pdf

Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour Pdf

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