Description: Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society, the first edited volume on music in modern Iran, collects compelling scholarship, musician narratives, and primary sources. It offers historiography and critical examination of music's significant role in social and political discourses in Iran throughout the twentieth century.
Brief description: Nahid Siamdoust is Assistant Professor of Media and Middle East Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution. Previously, she was a correspondent for Time Magazine and for Al Jazeera International. Her recent commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, New Lines Magazine, Foreign Policy, BBC, and NPR.