‘Disrupting Diaspora’ p...
My forthcoming book published by Routledge, ‘Disrupting Diaspora’, explores arts-practice as a means for adding nuance to theories of diaspora. This book combines exploration of my life experience with analysis […]
Healing Double-Consciousness Throug...
Originally published as book chapter in Towards a Comparative Aesthetics of Music, Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology Vol. 27 ed. Gerd Grupe, 2021. This article explores the processs of moving and […]
Auto-ethnography and Composition as...
This PhD project presents both a portfolio of compositions and a written thesis exploring the British-Iranian author’s experiences of double-consciousness, an internalised form of subject-object dualism in which the individual […]
Nonclassical: An Ethnography
As part of my MSt in Musicology at University of Oxford, I carried out my dissertation research on the London record label and club night Nonclassical. Set up by composer/DJ […]
Iranian Classical Music, Orientalis...
Iranian Classical Music, Orientalism and Techniques of Contemporary Composition 1. Introduction Musicians and artists located in contemporary Western societies have a long history of creative cosmopolitanism: from Henri Matisse’s […]
Art and Music of the Middle East
This article considers the emerging genre of ‘underground rock’ music in Iran; so-called because its proponents rehearse and perform in underground or other soundproof spaces to avoid detection by the […]
Ethnography as Remix
This article considers some of the methodological considerations relevant to the use of ethnography in my study of Nonclassical. Here I draw links between ethnography and the remix: considering some […]
Imagining Anorexia
Click here for a copy of Imagining Anorexia This article focuses on ‘pro-ana’ websites, i.e., on-line communities which promote anorexia as a desirable lifestyle. Analysing both the language and visual […]