Tehrangeles Dreaming is the first book about the Tehrangeles music industry, that is, the Iranian diaspora music industry brought to life by the expatriate Iranian artists and music producers who settled in Los Angeles and Southern California after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Farzaneh Hemmasi uses an ethnographic approach in combination with an analysis of diaspora media discourse in order to “examine expatriate imaginations of influence on, and intimacy with, their global Iranian audiences” (26). At its core, the book deals with the imagining and reimagining of Iranian identity by the artistic community that creates music and media content for Iranians in Iran and across the world.
Articles by Siavash Rokni
Siavash Rokni is a teacher, researcher, translator, editor, musician, and doctoral candidate in Communication at the Université de Québec à Montreal (UQÀM). He is the winner of an FRQSC doctoral bursary and FARE scholarship. His Master’s thesis focused on networked protesting crowds during the 2009 green movement in Iran, and his PhD research focuses on the rise of the Talfiqi music genre in the post-Iranian-revolution music scene. Siavash has published articles in English and French on various subjects including social movement theory, academic creativity, and music. He has been the guest editor for Commposite and Stream, and he has translated multiple academic articles from French to English. Siavash is a classical flutist, jazz saxophonist, and composer of ensemble music.