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Culture and cultural politics under Reza Shah : the Pahlavi state, new bourgeoisie and the creation of a modern society in Iran

Title
Culture and cultural politics under Reza Shah : the Pahlavi state, new bourgeoisie and the creation of a modern society in Iran / edited by Bianca Devos and Christoph Werner.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Devos, Bianca
  • Werner, Christoph, 1967-
Description
xii, 328 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the 1920s and 1930s in Iran, when, under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi, dramatic changes took place inside Iranian society. With special reference to the practical implementation of specific reform endeavours, the various contributions critically analyze different facets of the relationship between cultural politics, individual reformers and the everyday life of modernist Iranians.Interpreting culture in its broadest sense, this book brings together contributions from different disciplines such as literary history, social history, ethnomusicology, art history, and Middle Eastern politics. In this way, it combines for the first time the cultural history of Iran's modernity with the politics of the Reza Shah period.Challenging a limited understanding of authoritarian rule under Reza Shah, this book is a useful contribution to existing literature for students and scholars of Middle Eastern History, Iranian History and Iranian Culture"--
  • "Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the 1920s and 1930s in Iran, when, under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi, dramatic changes took place inside Iranian society. With special reference to the practical implementation of specific reform endeavours, the various contributions critically analyze different facets of the relationship between cultural politics, individual reformers and the everyday life of modernist Iranians. Interpreting culture in its broadest sense, this book brings together contributions from different disciplines such as literary history, social history, ethnomusicology, art history, and Middle Eastern politics. In this way, it combines for the first time the cultural history of Iran's modernity with the politics of the Reza Shah period. Challenging a limited understanding of authoritarian rule under Reza Shah, this book is a useful contribution to existing literature for students and scholars of Middle Eastern History, Iranian History and Iranian Culture"--
Series Statement
Iranian studies ; 18
Uniform Title
Iranian studies (London, England) ; 18.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Intellectuals and technocrats: Key figures in Iran's cultural modernization -- 1.Modernization in literary history: Malek al-Sho'ara Bahar's Stylistics / Roxane Haag-Higuchi -- 2.Policy or puzzle? The foundation of the University of Tehran between ideal conception and pragmatic realization / Christl Catanzaro -- 3.Mir Mehdi Varzandeh and the introduction of modern physical education in Iran / H. E. Chehabi -- 4.Modernization of Iranian music during the reign of Reza Shah / Keivan Aghamohseni -- 5.The king's white walls: Modernism and bourgeois architecture / Talinn Grigor -- pt. II The Shah: State politics and authoritarian modernization -- 6.Archaeology and the Iranian National Museum: Qajar and early Pahlavi cultural policies / Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam -- 7.Depicting power: Reza Shah's rule, cabinet politics and the commemorative stamp set of 1935 / Roman Siebertz -- 8.Press censorship in the Reza Shah era, 1925-41 / Karim Soleimani -- pt. III Life under Reza Shah: New bourgeois culture and other forms of practiced modernity -- 9.Drama and operetta at the Red Lion and Sun: Theatre in Tabriz 1927-41 / Christoph Werner -- 10."Newly hatched chickens": Bozorg 'Alavi on the young literary scene of the 1930s / Roja Dehdarian -- 11.Giving birth to a new generation: Midwifery in the public health system of the Reza Shah era / Elham Malekzadeh -- 12.Engineering a modern society? Adoptions of new technologies in early Pahlavi Iran / Bianca Devos -- 13.Religious aspects in communication processes in early Pahlavi Iran / Katja Follmer.
Call Number
JFE 14-5668
ISBN
  • 9780415824194 (hardback)
  • 0415824192 (hardback)
  • 0203798422 (e-book)
  • 9780203798423 (e-book)
  • 9780203798423 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013005107
  • 40022723957
OCLC
816031057
Title
Culture and cultural politics under Reza Shah : the Pahlavi state, new bourgeoisie and the creation of a modern society in Iran / edited by Bianca Devos and Christoph Werner.
Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Iranian studies ; 18
Iranian studies (London, England) ; 18.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Devos, Bianca, author, editor.
Werner, Christoph, 1967- author, editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40022723957
Research Call Number
JFE 14-5668
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