University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...

NeekOn will feature Live Music, Dance (including a Persian Folklore Dance Flash Mob), Visual Arts, and Food from multiple cultures around the world. (Neek means kindness.) In addition there will be ...

Tar player Siamak Sepehri (L), who leads the Iranian folk music band Rastak, listens as Farzad Moradi, the group's Kurdish lead singer, talks during an interview with Reuters in the Omani capital ...

In the Persian legend of the Seemorgh, a mythical bird carries an abandoned infant boy to her nest on a mountaintop and, when he returns to his people, gives him a magic feather for protection. The ...

In the 1970s, Persian pop music was flourishing. But after Iran's 1979 revolution, everything changed. The theocratic rule of Ayatollah Khomeini meant that all music with Western influence had to go.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, whose distinctive voice quavered to traditional Persian music on state radio for years before he was blacklisted for supporting protesters after Iran’s contested 2009 election ...

Iranian electronic producers are having a moment. After decades of pushback by the Islamic Republic on Western influences, a new underground generation is using digital, lyricless sounds to challenge ...

It's a seemingly simple approach to one of the modern world's most complicated political problems: By marrying the dainty lutes of the East with the thrumming violas of the West, composer Hafez Nazeri ...

University Artist-in-Residence Mohsen Namjoo has been described as the “Bob Dylan of Iran” by the New York Times — the Iranian pop singer and political advocate presented a lecture Wednesday entitled ...