%0 Journal Article
%T Cultural interaction of Iranian and Western Popular Music ---
%A Hassan Bashir
%A bashir@isu.ac.ir - £¿£¿£¿ £¿£¿£¿£¿
%A Mohammad Sarvi Zargar - £¿£¿£¿£¿ £¿£¿£¿£¿ £¿£¿£¿£¿
%J Global Media Journal : Persian Edition
%D 2008
%I University of Tehran
%X This paper attempts to examine the impact of Western Popular Culture on Iranian Music. With its millions of supporters, Iranian Popular Music tries not only to be a local but a universal music as well How much success this music will achieve on its time would affect the whole Iranian art in the future. The paper follows a semiological analysis of couple of Iranian pop music singers to discover how this Iranian genre of pop music can reach the standards a more global pop music. We will provide a thorough analysis of signs and symbols imbedded into pop music in Iran to see how it is possible to provided a rather comprehensive understanding of the direction of Iranian pop music. The paper also explores the possibility of using music as a tools to improve intercultural communication locally, as well as globally. ---                                                                                            .                                                                                    -    ;     .                                                                                                                         .                 (popular)                                                                                                                                                                                     .                                                                 .                                                                                                                                                          .                                                                                                .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                .                                                                                            .                                                                                                                                                         .                                                                                                            .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     .                                         .
%K Popular Music
%K Cultural Interaction
%K Intercultural Communication
%K Iranian Popular Music
%K Western Popular Music -
%U http://gmj.ut.ac.ir/maghale.aspx?id=19