![]() ![]() ![]() In the violent government backlash to the current protests, prominent dissident musicians have been arrested, including rapper Toomaj Salehi and singer-songwriter Shervin Hajipour, who wrote the movement's unofficial anthem, ‘Baraye’. The streets of the capital Tehran and cities around the country filled with protesters, and images emerged of women joyfully tearing off their headscarves and dancing to music in public - things forbidden since soon after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, when the authoritarian Islamic Republic of Iran was established and millions of Iranians fled into exile. Iranian music has definitely taken the world stage since the Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement caught fire in September 2022, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, arrested for allegedly not wearing her hijab to government standards. My dream is for Iranian musicians to be everywhere, and Iranian expression to be a part of everything. Now there's an explosion of Iranian music of all kinds, which is wild. “It was like a mehmooni, a family gathering where you saw everybody. “You used to know who everyone was, there were so few of us,” says producer and Shaytoon label head Sepehr of the Iranian/Iranian diaspora's electronic music scene. ![]()
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