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Tehrangeles Dreaming deftly analyses what circulates and translates around and across this most complex and refractive of diasporic spaces. It is a subtle book, a model of how to weave popular music and dance into a field still largely dominated by film and literature. And a real pleasure to read. That shesh-o-hasht groove can be felt on every page. -- Martin Stokes, author of * The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music * In this important book Farzaneh Hemmasi offers a novel reading of Iranian exilic pop music, raising insightful conceptual questions about the notion and significance of pop culture and diasporic imagination. By taking pop music seriously, she opens up a space for conversations about transnational networks of artistic production, the construction of nationhood and nationalism, and the politics of identity. -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, author of * Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment *

Tehrangeles Dreaming deftly analyzes what circulates and translates around and across this most complex and refractive of diasporic spaces. It is a subtle book, a model of how to weave popular music and dance into a field still largely dominated by film and literature. And a real pleasure to read. That shesh-o-hasht groove can be felt on every page. -- Martin Stokes, author of * The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music * In this important book Farzaneh Hemmasi offers a novel reading of Iranian exilic pop music, raising insightful conceptual questions about the notion and significance of pop culture and diasporic imagination. By taking pop music seriously, she opens up a space for conversations about transnational networks of artistic production, the construction of nationhood and nationalism, and the politics of identity. -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, author of * Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment *

Farzaneh Hemmasi's book is a deft and insightful analysis of Tehrangeles, viewed as a geography, a music scene, a pop industry, a transnational cultural production field, and a post-revolutionary diasporic cultural formation.... Conceptually rich, theoretically nuanced, with its lucid demonstrations of the mobilization of affect, Hemmasi's Tehrangeles Dreaming makes a valuable contribution to a wide range of scholarship. -- Mehdi Semati * Cultural Studies * Tehrangeles Dreaming deftly analyzes what circulates and translates around and across this most complex and refractive of diasporic spaces. It is a subtle book, a model of how to weave popular music and dance into a field still largely dominated by film and literature. And a real pleasure to read. That shesh-o-hasht groove can be felt on every page. -- Martin Stokes, author of * The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music * In this important book Farzaneh Hemmasi offers a novel reading of Iranian exilic pop music, raising insightful conceptual questions about the notion and significance of pop culture and diasporic imagination. By taking pop music seriously, she opens up a space for conversations about transnational networks of artistic production, the construction of nationhood and nationalism, and the politics of identity. -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, author of * Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment *

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Farzaneh Hemmasi is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto.

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