Email:  adel.sattaripour(at)b-tu.de

Dissertation Title:

“A Semiotic Analysis of the Performative Space in Music of Subcultures Case Study of the Iranian Underground Rock Music Scene” (working title)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. phil. Christer Petersen

Description:

Following the collision of tradition and modernity in the Iranian post-war era and within the past two decades, an underground music culture has been growing and constantly evolving in Iran. Fusion music styles are developing an identical position in Iranian music culture. The scene’s music is often a blend of Persian contemporary and classic poetry, mixed with traditional Persian instruments and modern western elements such as Rock, Blues and Jazz. The mainstream media often portraits the subject as a subversive movement. However this interpretation fails to explain that despite the domestic censorship, the majority of underground artists tend to engage in the national heritage-oriented arts in their ‘performative’ space and productions with a tendency to achieve an independent identity and seeking a global status. The aim of this project is to examine the Iranian underground rock music scene as a complex cultural activity -i.e., as a social reproduction of a group, its relevance to the revival of cultural traditions and the meaning of the remediated heritage for the community, gender norms and their audiences- and to understand how it can be situated in the wide context of practice theory based on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of ‘habitus’.

Short bio:

Adel SATTARIPOUR has a Bachelor in Architecture from IAU, Iran followed by a Master of Arts in Architecture Design from Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany. Since 2014 he became a Ph.D. candidate at the IGS Heritage Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology. His major academic interests are Concepts of Space in Media; Culture and Identity; Articulation Theory; Challenges between Tradition and Modernity in Music Cultures.