This website article from Anastasia Tsioulcas, touches base on how the music in Iran is continuing to flourish throughout the world, despite turmoil from previous decades still exhuming. Iran, a country rich in the styles of classical Persian music with hints of folk, is now moving towards experimenting with pop music. Young artists are making their way to new areas in order to expand in the music industry. Persian music still remains popular and now folk music is making its way along the same road to popularity among minority populations. These styles of music involve various types of instruments including stringed dotarm, double-reeded wind instruments, and drums making their effect to the magnificent sound of music. Persian music will never die, as the tradition of families recording songs continue to live on. Pop music is still trying to make a mark in the Iranian world, one step at a time. (Tsioulcas 1)
Evaluation:
The value of this source was moderate because it gave the reader insight on the process of music, and how it's trying to expand around the world. When you think of Iran you think of a country based solely on old music, something that you would never listen to. However, that's not the case. The author of this website article tells the reader that they are becoming more involved into pop music, a genre that young American kids listen to on an every day basis! She not only tells you about how Iranians are advancing, but also lets you know that they still hold old values and traditions like families re-recording old songs which is the strongest of the source since probably most readers and even myself didn't know that. It gives people who don't live near Iran a glimpse into what's been going on in the recent years.
Citation:
Tsioulcas, Anastasia. Iran. National Geographic Society, 1996. Web.9 Oct. 2011.
Tsioulcas, Anastasia. (2011). Iran. Retrieved from http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/iran_344
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