Politics of Music in Iran

Negar Mortazavi speaks with Nahid Siamdoust, visiting Assistant
Professor at Harvard University, about music after the 1979
revolution in Iran through the Iran-Iraq war, the post-war era of
pop music, political music inspired by the 2009 green movement,
and today's musicians in the diaspora, in memory of legendary
Iranian singer the late Mohammadreza Shajarian. (Music by
Shajarian, Koveitipoor, Shabpareh, Parnaz&Ashkan).


*This episode was made possible with support from Heinrich Boll
Foundation.