Too Much Melisma
Marzieh, Morteza Mahjubi and Adib Khwansari at Radio Studio, Tehran.
Seated (right to left): Ahmad Ebrāhimi, Bizhān Taraqqi, Hosayn Tehrāni, Parviz Yāhaqqi. Second row: Solaymān Amir-Qāsemi, Farhang Sharif, Zabih Malekpur, Mortazā Mahjubi, Ebrāhim Sahbā, Sādeq Sarmad. Above Mortazā Mahjubi: Nabizādeh (Toyuri).
The Golhā (’Flowers of Persian Song and Music’) comprise 1400 radio programs consisting of approximately 886 [...]
Towards an Autochthonic Censorship Aesthetic
Farimani Issue #1
Edited by Amir Mogharabi.
Showcasing a diverse selection of work from artists, musicians, and theorists, Farimani treats textual, musical, and image based projects as individual works of art. Focusing on modern and post-modern forms of expression, Farimani assumes the design of a book, while attempting to align its contents with the architecture of a curated space [...]
Indo-Iranica Journal — Iran Society
Covers from 1962 (left) and 1950-51 (right)
Indo-Iranica is a quarterly journal published by the Iran Society in India since 1946.
More Beautiful Ayandeh Covers
Ripeh: the Review of Iranian Political Economy and History
Left two covers designed by Khosrow Moradian.
Ayandeh: a Persian journal of Iranian studies
Founded in 1925 by Dr. Mahmoud Afshar and edited in later years by his son Iraj Afshar, Ayandeh continued to be published into the early 1990s.
Shiraz Arts Festival
Farah Diba greets John Cage and Merce Cunningham at the 1972 festival. (Photo: Cunningham Dance Foundation Archive)
Article Abstract:
Iran in the 1970s was host to an array of electronic music and avant-garde arts. In the decade prior to the Islamic revolution, the Shiraz Arts Festival provided a showcase for composers, performers, dancers and theater directors from [...]