Music After The Iran-Iraq War

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After the revolution, the gendered state cultural policy, as well as other legal measures, was not evenly or consistently applied, but in the first decade due to different and even conflicting agendas and views among the ruling class there were a wide range of ‘inconsistencies, irregularities and fluctuations enforced (Nooshin 2004, 242). In this period, the revolutionary atmosphere and the war ( Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988) provided a kind of justification for limiting cultural and art creativities and even controlling of normal recreation. Music schools were closed, public concerts (even private programs) were controlled and restricted (still do), pop music was banned, and the only kind of music broadcasted from radio and television was

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