Farzaneh Hemmasi. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music
Farzaneh Hemmasi. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020, 264p., 40 illust. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0836-1
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1This book explores the production of pop music in Tehrangeles, a name given to Los Angeles by the Iranian diaspora, through its impact on Iranian identity. This form of pop music has been circulating widely abroad and in Iran for decades, and it is particularly relevant when considering cultural exchanges between Iran and its diaspora. Hemmasi explores how music producers have positioned themselves to reflect on the question of the Iranian nation. The book is particularly interesting when it discusses the impact of Tehrangeles pop on Iranians within, in political, social and moral terms, and how pop offers different ways of being Iranian from those proposed by the Iranian state.
2The writing is engaging, filled with stories about fieldwork and encounters. Pop music might be seen as superficial by some, but it touches upon many political issues and brings about conflicts that Hemmasi convincingly analyses.
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Laetitia Nanquette, « Farzaneh Hemmasi. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music », Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 42-43 | 2021, document 2, mis en ligne le 15 avril 2021, consulté le 15 mai 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/52754 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.52754
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