WOMUSIRAN: Women and Western Art Music in Iran

WOMUSIRAN通过西方艺术音乐在伊朗的棱镜，调查性别、伊斯兰教、移民和文化掠夺之间的联系。它追溯了女性作曲家、教师、学者和从业者的命运，她们的工作和职业生涯成为1979年革命以及随后对女性和音乐创作加强控制的牺牲品。该项目自下而上地展示了那些开拓性的女性音乐家在塑造伊朗文化政策、影响1979年后的侨民社区以及为当今妇女在伊朗复兴的音乐和文化生活中的可能性所发挥的作用的历史。WOMUSIRAN与阿富汗的现状产生了强烈的共鸣。该项目的目标是对主要和次要来源进行批判性和背景评估，构建伊朗和散居国外的主要女性音乐家的口述历史，并对个案研究音乐家的作品进行比较和背景评估。另一个目标是在非物质文化遗产的框架内确定这些案例研究的位置。这些目标将通过跨学科方法实现，该方法利用(民族)音乐学、移民、性别和女权主义研究、地区研究和人权、访谈、证词和档案材料以及文本和音乐评估。该项目将在多伦多大学世界领先的伊朗研究中心(离任阶段)和伦敦国王学院音乐系(返回阶段)进行，在丝绸之路(波士顿)借调两个月，并在世界文化中心(巴黎)安置六个月。其结果将是跨部门的，打破学者和从业人员之间的界限，使散居国外的音乐家能够重新与他们的根联系起来，让新一代女性和LGBTQ+音乐家发声，并在伊朗人和散居国外的人之间建立沟通渠道。

WOMUSIRAN investigates links between gender, Islam, migration and cultural appropriation, through the prism of Western art music in Iran. It traces the fate of female composers, teachers, scholars and practitioners, whose work and careers fell victim to the 1979 Revolution and to the subsequent tightened controls on women and music-making. The project presents a bottom-up history of the role of those pioneering female musicians in shaping Iran's cultural policies, impacting post-1979 diasporic communities, and contributing to present-day possibilities for women in Iran's re-emergent musical and cultural life. WOMUSIRAN resonates stronglywith the current situation in Afghanistan.The project's objectives are to undertake a critical and contextual assessment of primary and secondary sources, to construct an oral history of key female musicians in Iran and diasporic communities, and to conduct comparative and contextual assessment of works by the case-study musicians. A further objective will be to locate these case studies within the frame of Intangible Cultural Heritage. These objectives will be achieved through an interdisciplinary methodology that draws on (ethno-)musicology, migration, gender and feminist studies, area studies and human rights, drawing on interviews, testimonies and archival material, alongside textual and musical assessment.The project will be carried out at the world-leading Centre for Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto (outgoing phase) and at the Music Department of King's College, London (return phase), with a two-month secondment at Silkroad (Boston) and a six-month placement at the Maison des Cultures du Monde (Paris). The outcome will be intersectoral, breaking down boundaries between academics and practitioners, enabling diasporic musicians to reconnect with their roots, giving a voice to a new generation of female and LGBTQ+ musicians, and creating channels of communication between those in Iran and the diaspora.