In this book Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah by analysing their intervallic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and improvisations, an

This dissertation studies the modal system of Persian music. While modern Iranian musicians explain their music as a of seven dastgah plus five sub-dastgah call

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book

This book interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological unde

Bonnie C. Wade studies khyal and the cultural history behind the art.