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Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond (Iranian Studies) by Gay Jennifer Breyley; Sasan Fatemi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

Gay Jennifer Breyley; Sasan Fatemi

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317336792

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Music