Iran Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2024 Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Radio Special Issue Guest Editor: Khatereh Sheibani ENGLISH VERSO Radio Special Issue The Golden Era of Radio Iran (1940-1978): A Modernist Aural Culture Khatereh Sheibani The Advent and Development of Radio in Iran Bigan Kimiachi Radio: […]
The Golden Era of Radio Iran (1940-1978): A Modernist Aural Culture Khatereh Sheibani اگر میشد صدا را دید چه گلهایی … چه گلهایی! که از باغ صدای تو به هر آواز میشد چید! اگر میشد صدا را دید محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی If voice could be seen! gorgeous flowers … gorgeous flowers! could be picked, from […]
The Advent and Development of Radio in Iran[1] Bigan Kimiachi Administration and Technological Development Long-distance communication in Iran began with the advent of the wired telegraph and the wireless telegraph, and in this respect progress from a simple telegraph communication system to a complex broadcasting network followed the same path as in most other countries. […]
Radio: A New Cultural History of Listening to Iranian Music (1940-1952)[1] Pouya Nekouei Introduction Radio was a significant medium in the formation of modernity’s global soundscape. From the early decades of the twentieth century, radio became an important part of mass media, not only in Western capitalist contexts, but in the Global South as […]
Soundscaping Diaspora and the Affective Politics of Listening Nazli Akhtari The global proliferation of podcasts and other kinds of audio-blogging has been particularly useful for facilitating transnational conversations in diasporas. By the same token, there has been a surge within the last decade in podcasting on a range of subjects in Persian in Iran and […]
BBC Persian Radio: A Public Sphere of Communication, Communitas, and Communion Pouneh Saeedi ….sound, sound, only sound, the sound of the transparent wish of water to flow, the sound of the falling starlight on the earth’s feminine crust the sound of closure of the seed’s meaning and the extension of love’s shared mind sound, sound, […]
Weststruckness: Its Trials, and Its Tribulations (With Morad Moazami) Abstract From the late nineteenth century onwards, ‘Weststruckness,’ under some moniker or another, has remained prevalent in Iranian sociocultural discourse. Its message, however, has largely been distorted and misunderstood by way of its weaponisation as a political, indeed, revolutionary tool. In this paper, we trace […]
Mistaken Modernity and Its Critics: Hussein Alatas and Jalal Al-e Ahmad Ali Mirsepassi, New York University Tadd Fernée, Université de Tours There already exists an idea of an American or European social science tradition. Though both draw upon a common universal fountain of social science knowledge, yet we do speak of an American or […]
