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Googoosh: The Story of an Exiled Iranian Diva
In the s and ’70s, if you were a free-thinking hippie backpacking through the Middle East en route to India or Afghanistan, you stopped, inevitably, in Tehran, the Iranian capital.
And during your stay — in addition to whatever else you were up to — you encountered, on the streets and in the clubs and cafés, one of the region’s most vibrant and diverse music scenes.
Iran, at that point, was a nation in flux.
Neda googoosh academy biography
The Shah, an absolute monarch, had been installed following a U.S.-backed coup. He ushered in an era of modernization that brought in western interests, oil tycoons and an influx of cash, but also classical music and rock ’n’ roll.
Those foreign sounds — like fuzzed-out psych, R&B, Indian pop, Latin rhythms and American Top 40 — merged with Iran’s traditional musics into a distinctive musical hybrid, Iranian pop.
Iranian pop, with it’s funky rhythms and untempered tunings — performed on Western instruments and recorded with We