ETHNMUS 8Current Practices in Iranian Music-Making
Ethnomusicology · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Introduction to contemporary practices of Iranian music-making, with particular focus on social, cultural, religious, and political issues since 1979 Iranian Revolution. Consideration of interrelationships between musical genres. Analysis of how these types of music have intersected with issues of language, race, class, gender, ritual, politics, social movements, and cultural identity. Survey of evolution of Iranian musical practices during four decades of Iranian Revolution.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ETHNMUS 8
- ETHNMUS 144Special Topics in Iranian Music
- ETHNMUS 145Analyzing Rhythm in Persian Music
- ETHNMUS 163Theory, Practice, and Improvisation in Iranian Music
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.