Authors

Farzaneh Hemmasi

Farzaneh Hemmasi (PhD, Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at University of Toronto. Her monograph Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California’s Iranian Pop Music (Duke University Press, 2020) is an ethnographic account of the Los Angeles-based postrevolutionary Iranian expatriate culture industries. Prof. Hemmasi’s other publications consider the circulation of music and poetry between diaspora and homeland; the political metaphorization of the Iranian female singing voice; and Iranian “New Poetry” and popular music; these have appeared in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2017), Popular Communication (2017), Popular Music (2017), Ethnomusicology (2013), Mahoor Music Quarterly (2008) and several edited volumes. Most recently, she leads a collaborative ethnographic research project on music, sound, affordability in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighborhood. Hemmasi also serves on the advisory boards for San Francisco State University’s Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto. For more information see here.

ARTICLES BY Farzaneh Hemmasi