Professor Laudan Nooshin • City, University of London

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About

Overview

Laudan Nooshin gained her BA in Music from the University of Leeds and her MMus in Ethnomusicology from Goldsmiths' College (University of London), where she also taught between 1987 and 1991. Her PhD (Goldsmiths' College, 1996) was a study of creative performance in Iranian classical music. Between 1993 and 2004, Laudan taught in the Department of Performing Arts at Brunel University. She has been at City, University of London since 2004 and has held a number of course leadership positions during this time - BMus, MA, PhD and DMA Programme Director - and from 2017 to 2020 was Head of the Music Department.

Laudan is an active researcher working in the broad fields of urban sound studies, film music studies, popular music studies and contemporary music cultures, with a particular focus on Iran and the Middle East.

She is currently working as an AHRC Innovation Scholar, seconded to the theatre consultancy company Sonic Tehran: Tehran's Historical and Contemporary Sound Spaces from which a book is currently in process.

Between 2021 and 2022, Laudan served as a full panel member for the UKRI Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) for Unit of Assessment 33 (Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies).

Laudan’s publications include the monograph Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity (Ashgate Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2016 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book prize, and the edited volumes Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (2009, Ashgate Press), The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music and Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions (co-edited with Anna Bull and Christina Scharff, 2023, Oxford University Press), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters (see publications section). She was awarded the 2019 Helen Roberts Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology for her article '"Our Angel of Salvation” Towards an Understanding of Iranian Cyberspace as an Alternative Sphere of Musical Sociality’. 2018, Ethnomusicology, 62(2): 341-74.

Research Activities
Laudan has been active in the academic community for many years. Between 2007 and 2011, she was co-Editor of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum and is currently an Advisory Board member for the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (Brill). Between 2019 and 2023, Laudan was co-Editor (with Professor Simon McVeigh) of the Cambridge University Press Elements series Music and the City. She is currently a Vice-President and Trustee of the Royal Musical Association, Chair of the RMA Search Committee and founded the RMA EDI Working Group in 2020.

Since 2007, Laudan founded and continues to convene (with Professor Rachel Harris at SOAS) the twice yearly Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Studies Network.

Previous roles include serving as a member of the Institute of Musical Research Advisory Board, the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Alan Merriam Prize Committee (2013), an elected committee member of the National Association for Music in Higher Education (2008-2011), a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (2006-2009), and a member of the QAA Benchmarking Statement Review Panel for Music (2015). Laudan has served several terms as committee member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and convened a number of conferences for this organisation.

Knowledge Exchange and Outreach
Laudan regularly writes feature articles and reviews CDs of Iranian music for Songlines: The World Music Magazine and is often contacted for advice and information on Iranian music and invited to speak about her research.

Laudan is strongly committed to knowledge exchange and outreach work. In 2011, she initiated and led the Shahnameh Project in collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Community and Education Department, London Music Masters, composer David Bruce and storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton, introducing Key Stage 2 children to Iranian music and culture through a series of workshops, concerts, teacher training INSET days and a published teacher’s guide. This project became the core of an impact case study submitted by City University for REF2014. The piece Prince Zal and the Simorgh that was commissioned for the project was also performed by the Cornwall Youth Orchestra at the Youth Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in November 2015, the latter involving City University’s Middle Eastern Music Ensemble.

More recently, the the Phoenix of Persia project used the same story as the basis for a picture book with specially-composed music introducing British children to Iranian culture, music, history and storytelling. Laudan worked with publisher Tiny Owl, storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton and a group of Iranian musicians to create the book and accompanying educational resource materials for Key stage 2 children. The book was published in 2019 and the project includes a cross-curricular education resource website.

Laudan also co-leads, with Dr Maria Mendonça (Kenyon College, USA), the HEIF-funded project ‘Re-sounding the Past: Decolonizing Sonic Heritage Spaces’, which has included adding a sonic installation to the kitchen area of Ham House, a historic National Trust property in Richmond, Surrey.

A great believer in extending students' horizons, in June 2008 Laudan organised and led an educational trip to Iran for 6 students from the Music Department at City, funded by the City University Alumni Association. See pictures from the 2008 trip to Iran.

Research

Research interests

Laudan Nooshin is an active researcher working in the broad fields of ethnomusicology, popular music studies and film music studies, with a particular focus on the musics of Iran and the Middle East. Her research interests include:

- Contemporary developments in Iranian traditional and popular musics
- Urban sound studies
- Popular music studies, with a focus on music and youth culture in Iran
- Contemporary music cultures, particularly relating to digital cultures and global media
- Music in Iranian cinema
- Music and sound in urban space, with a particular focus on Tehran
- Music and power: globalisation, post/neo-colonialism, orientalism and the politics of representation
- Creative processes in music, with particular reference to performance practice in Iranian classical music
- Music and migration; music and cultural identity; music and memory
- Music and gender, with particular reference women musicians in Iran
- Iran and the Middle East in the Euro-American musical ‘imagination’
- The ethnomusicology of Euro-American art music

Possible areas of research supervision

- Urban sound studies
- Contemporary developments in Iranian music
- Iranian popular music
- Music in Iranian cinema
- Music and gender
- Music, power and ideology
- Music and global media
- Music and globalisation
- Music and the politics of cultural representation
- Ethnicity, identity and music
- The ethnomusicology of Euro-American art music

Publications

Featured publications

Nooshin, L. (2014). Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity. Asghate: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7546-0703-8.

Publications by category

Books (3)

Bull, A., Scharff, C. and Nooshin, L. (Eds.), (2023). Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession. Oxford University PressNew York. ISBN 0-19-760121-9.
Nooshin, L. (2015). The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-81652-6.
Nooshin, L. (2009). Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Ashgate Press. ISBN 978-0-7546-3457-7.

Chapters (18)

Nooshin, L., Fakhraeirad, A. and Rezaie, A. (2023). A Sonic Tale of Two Cities: Memory, Trauma, and Auditory Scars in Tehran and Abadan-Khorramshahr. In Chehabi, H. and Siamdoust, N. (Eds.), Music and Society in Iran Harvard University Press.
Nooshin, L. and Salavati, K. (2023). Tehran City Symphonies: The Sounds of Conflicted Modernities, Silent Spaces and Highway Pleasures. In Ghorbankarimi, M., Langford, M. and Khosroshah, Z. (Eds.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Iranian Cinema Bloomsbury.
Nooshin, L. (2018). (Re-)imagining improvisation: discursive positions in Iranian music from classical to jazz. In Clarke, E.F. and Doffman, M. (Eds.), Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music (pp. 214–235). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-935591-4.
Nooshin, L. (2016). Jazz and its Social Meanings in Iran: From Cultural Colonialism to the Universal. In Bohlman, P., Goffredo, P. and Jackson, T. (Eds.), Jazz Worlds/World Jazz Chicago University Press.
Nooshin, L. (2016). "Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1997 Iranian Popular Music". In Van Nieuwkerk, K., Levine, M. and Stokes, M. (Eds.), Islam and Popular Culture (pp. 242–257). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4773-0904-9.
Nooshin, L. (2013). 'Introduction to the Special Issue: The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music'. In Nooshin, L. (Ed.), The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music Rouledge. ISBN 978-0-415-81652-6.
Nooshin, L. (2011). Hip-hop Tehran: Migrating Styles, Musical Meanings, Marginalised Voices. In Toynbee, J. and Dueck, B. (Eds.), Migrating Music (pp. 92–111). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-59448-6.
Nooshin, L. (2009). Prelude: Power and the Play of Music. In Nooshin, L. (Ed.), Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (pp. 1–31). Ashgate Press. ISBN 978-0-7546-3457-7.
Nooshin, L. (2009). "Tomorrow is Ours": Re-imagining Nation, Performing Youth in the New Iranian Pop Music. In Nooshin, L. (Ed.), Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (pp. 245–268). Ashgate Press. ISBN 978-0-7546-3457-7.
Nooshin, L. (2008). The Language of Rock: Iranian Youth, Popular Music, and National Identity. In Semati, M. (Ed.), Media, culture and society in Iran Routlege Press. ISBN 978-0-415-77216-7.
Nooshin, L. (2008). 'Ethnomusicology, Alterity and Disciplinary Identity. Or "Do We Still Need an Ethno-?", "Do We Still Need an -Ology?" In Stobart, H. (Ed.), The new (ethno)musicologies (pp. 71–75). Scarecrow Press.
Nooshin, L. (2006). ‘Iran: The Art of Ornament’. In Broughton, S. and et al., (Eds.), The Rough Guide to World Music, Africa & Middle East, 3rd edition (pp. 519–532). London: Rough Guides.
Nooshin, L. (2005). 'Subversion and Countersubversion: Power, Control and Meaning in the New Iranian Pop Music. In Randall, A.J. (Ed.), Music, power, and politics (pp. 231–272). Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-94364-2.
Nooshin, L. (2003). Iranian Music. The World and Its People London: Brown Reference Group.
Nooshin, L. (2001). Biographical entries on six Iranian musicians: ‘Nur Ali Borumand’, ‘Ali Naqi Vaziri’, ‘Hossein Alizadeh’, ‘Dariush Talai’, ‘Mohammad Reza Shajarian’ and ‘Mohammad Reza Lotfi’. In Sadie, S. and Tyrrell, J. (Eds.), The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Nooshin, L. Two Revivalist Moments in Iranian Classical Music. Oxford University Press.
Nooshin, L. Affective listening, sonic intimacy and the power of quiet voices in Rakhshan Banietemad’s the May Lady: Towards a cinema of empathy. In Ghorbankarimi,, M. (Ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
Nooshin, L. The Sonic Intimacies of Khosrow Sinai’s A Lost Requiem (1983). In Wilford, S., Tragaki, D. and Cottrell, S. (Eds.), Ethnomusicology and Its Intimacies Routledge.

Conference papers and proceedings (70)

Nooshin, L. (2017). The Elephant and the Blind Men: Myth-Making, Musical Tracking and the Creative Process. Tracking the Creative Process in Music 14-16 September, Huddersfield, UK.
Nooshin, L. (2017). Windows onto other Worlds. Musical Exoticism in Iranian Cinema: Between National Imaginary and Global Circulation. Exoticism in Contemporary Transnational Cinema: Music and Spectacle 16 June, London, UK.
Nooshin, L. (2017). ‘BME’ Perspectives on Music Higher Education. Annual Conference of the National Association for Music in Higher Education 2 May, Cambridge, UK.
Nooshin, L. (2016). '"Eenja Tehran-e" (‘This is Tehran’): Iranian Hip-hop and the Urban Musical Imaginary'. Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association 3 Sep 2016 – 5 Dec 2016, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
Nooshin, L. (2016). 'Whose Empowerment? Gender Dimensions of Music on the Internet in Iran'. International Society for Iranian Studies, Biennial Conference 3-5 August, University of Vienna.
Nooshin, L. (2016). '"Eenja Tehran-e" ("This is Tehran"): Iranian Hip-hop and the Urban Musical
Imaginary'. ‘It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At’: International Hip Hop Studies Conference 23 Jun 2016 – 25 Jan 2017, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Nooshin, L. (2016). 'Happy Families? Convergence, Antagonism and Disciplinary Identities or "We’re all God knows what now" (Cook 2016)'. City Debate, 'Are we all Ethnomusicologists now?' 1 June, City University London.
Nooshin, L. (2016). 'Sounding the City: Tehran's Contemporary Soundscapes'. Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum 13 May, Music Department, City, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2016). 'Whose Alternative Public Space? Gender Dimensions of Music on the Internet in Iran'. British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 14-17 April, University of Kent, School of Music and Fine Art.
Nooshin, L. (2016). '"Hide and Seek: The Internet as an Alternative Public Space for Iran’s "Hidden" Musicians'. The Hidden Musicians Revisited Conference 11-12 January, Music Department, The Open University.
Nooshin, L. (2015). ‘"Happiness is our People’s Right": Happy in Tehran and the Contesting of Social Boundaries’. Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association 9-11 September, University of Birmingham.
Nooshin, L. (2015). ‘"Happiness is our People’s Right": Happy in Tehran and the Contesting of Social Boundaries’. Joint conference of the Société Française d’Ethnomusicologie and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 2-5 July, Musée du quai Branly, Paris..
Nooshin, L. (2015). ‘“Happiness is our People’s Right”: Happy in Tehran and Symbolic Spaces of (Whose?) Liberation’. Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. 24-26 June, London School of Economic and Political Science..
Nooshin, L. (2015). Keynote address: ‘Re-Imagining Musical Difference: Creative Process, Alterity and “Improvisation” in Iranian Music from Classical to Jazz’. ‘The Art and Science of Improvisation’, Grieg Research School in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. 8-10 June, University of Bergen..
Nooshin, L. (2015). 'Perspectives on Analysing Music and Sound’ (roundtable contribution, by invitation). Royal Musical Association, Annual Research Students’ Conference. 8-10 January, University of Bristol..
Nooshin, L. (2014). 'Classical Music and its Others: the View from Iran’. ‘Classical Music, Critical Challenges’. 17 October, King’s College, University of London..
Nooshin, L. (2014). Re-Imagining Difference: Musical Analysis, Alterity and the Creative Process. Analysis, Cognition and Ethnomusicology’ Third International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM 2014)/Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE 2014) 1-4 July, London.
Nooshin, L. (2014). KEYNOTE ADDRESS
‘Sites of Memory: Public Emotionality, Gender and Nationhood in the Music of Googoosh’. Popular Music and Gender in a Transnational Context. 3 June, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo..
Nooshin, L. (2014). ‘“Our Website is our Club”: Towards an Understanding of (Iranian) Cyberspace as an Alterative Public Sphere’. Royal Musical Association/British Forum for Ethnomusicology Study Day, ‘Music, Circulation, and the Public Sphere'. 11 April, University of Manchester..
Nooshin, L. (2014). ‘“A rose by any other name …”: Cultural Musicology’ and its Premises’. Premises, Practices and Prospects of Cultural Musicology’. 24-25 January, University of Amsterdam..
Nooshin, L. (2013). ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Discourse, Practice and the Unbearable Lightness of Analysis. Methodological Challenges in Studying Creative Process in Iranian (Classical) Music’. Royal Musical Association Study Day, 'Researching Music as Process’. 22 November, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford..
Nooshin, L. (2013). ‘Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1998 Iranian Popular Music’. Islam and Popular Culture. 8-9 March, Amsterdam (funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research).
Nooshin, L. (2012). BY INVITATION
‘Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music’. Panel: 'Improvisation: Object of Study and Critical Paradigm', sponsored by the Society for Music Theory Improvisation Interest Group. Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory. 1-4 November, New Orleans.
Nooshin, L. (2012). BY INVITATION
‘Are Research Ethics Committees Ethical?’, presented as part of a roundtable on Research Ethics. British Forum for Ethnomusicology Graduate Conference, ‘Music and Movement’. 12-14 September, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London..
Nooshin, L. (2012). ‘Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music’. Perspectives on Musical Improvisation. 10-13 September, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford..
Nooshin, L. (2012). 'Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music'. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 29 Mar 2012 – 1 Apr 2012, University of Durham..
Nooshin, L. (2012). ‘Community of Catharsis: Musical Mediations on the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections’. Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 26-28 March, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Nooshin, L. (2011). 'Community of Catharsis: Musical Mediations on the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections'. Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 17-20 November, Philadelphia.
Nooshin, L. (2011). ‘Music and the Negotiation of “Otherness” in Iranian Cinema: Bashu, Little stranger’. the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, Conference on Music in Middle Eastern Cinema 17-18 May, Institute of Musical Research, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2011). ‘Community of Catharsis: Musical Mediations on the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections’. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 7-10 April, University College Falmouth.
Nooshin, L. (2011). KEYNOTE ADDRESS
‘Community of Catharsis: Cyberspace as Field Site’. 100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland. Celebration Symposium. 15-18 March, University of Helsinki.
Nooshin, L. (2011). ‘Community of Catharsis: Cyberspace as Field Site’. the conference ‘100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland. Celebration Symposium’ 15-18 March, Helsinki.
Nooshin, L. (2010). (by invitation, presentation as part of a roundtable) ‘How to Get Published’. Doing Ethnomusicology: Implications and Applications 20-22 September, Institute of Musical Research, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2010). ‘Music and the Negotiation of “Otherness” in Iranian Cinema: Bashu, Little Stranger’. the symposium Mythologising the Transition: Bahram Beyzaie's Cinema and Theatre 12 June, UCL Mellon Programme.
Nooshin, L. (2009). ‘“Green is the Colour …”: Musical Responses to the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections’. Middle East and Central Asia Music forum, Institute of Musical Research. 6 November, City University London..
Nooshin, L. (2009). ‘Hip-hop Tehran: Migrating Styles, Musical Meanings, Marginalised Voices’. Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style. 10-11 July, School of Oriental and African Studies..
Nooshin, L. (2009). ‘Hip-hop Tehran: Putting Marginalised Voices on the Global Map’. Thirty Years On: The Social and Cultural Impacts of the Iranian Revolution. 5-6 June, School of Oriental and African Studies..
Nooshin, L. (2009). ‘Hip-hop Tehran: Putting Marginalised Voices on the Global Map’. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 16-19 April, Liverpool John Moores University..
Nooshin, L. (2008). BY INVITATION
‘“World Music” Performance in the UK Higher Education Curriculum’. Annual Conference of the National Association for Music in Higher Education. 6 May, University of Cumbria..
Nooshin, L. (2008). ‘Music and the Negotiation of “Otherness” in Iranian Cinema: Bashu, Little Stranger’. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology April, University of Cardiff.
Nooshin, L. (2007). ‘Music and the Negotiation of “Otherness” in Iranian Cinema: Bashu, Little Stranger’. the Sound, Music and the Moving Image Conference, Institute of Musical Research September, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2007). 'The Siren's Song: Embodiment and the Female Voice in Iranian Music’. 39th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music. 4-11 July, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
Nooshin, L. (2007). ‘“We Have to Become Universal”: Internationalist Discourses and Language Choice in Contemporary Iranian Rock Music’. 33rd Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 18-21 April, University of Newcastle.
Nooshin, L. (2006). ‘“We Have To Become Universal”: Internationalist Discourses and Language Choice in Contemporary Iranian Rock Music’. 6th Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies. 3-5 August, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London..
Nooshin, L. (2006). ‘“We Have To Become Universal”: Internationalist Discourses and Language Choice in Contemporary Iranian Rock Music’. the Sixth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies August, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2006). BY INVITATION
‘Jazz and its Social Meanings in Iran: From Cultural Colonialism to the Universal’. World Jazz/Jazz Worlds Conference. 1-4 May, University of Chicago.
Nooshin, L. (2006). ‘The Siren's Song: Embodiment and the Female Voice in Iranian Music’. 32nd Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 31 Mar 2006 – 3 Apr 2006, University of Winchester.
Nooshin, L. (2005). ‘“Tomorrow is Ours”: Re-Imagining Nation, Performing Youth. Discourses of Empowerment in the New Iranian Pop Music’. Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 16-20 November, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Nooshin, L. (2005). ‘Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Discourses in Iran’. 4th Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music. 25-28 August, University of Sussex.
Nooshin, L. (2005). ‘Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Empowerment in Iran’. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 12-14 April, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Nooshin, L. (2004). INVITED SPEAKER
'The Composition/Improvisation Debate: Power, Difference and Ideology in Musicological Discourse’. Royal Musical Association/SOAS Study Day: ‘Improvisation in Musical Performance’. 23 October, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2004). ‘“Tomorrow is Ours”: Re-imagining Nation, Performing Youth. Discourses of Empowerment in the New Iranian Pop’. Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. 7-10 July, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2004). ‘“Tomorrow is Ours”: Re-imagining Nation, Performing Youth. Discourses of Empowerment in the New Iranian Pop’. the 2004 International Conference on Middle Eastern Studies July, (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2004). ‘The Composition/Improvisation Debate: Power, Difference and Ideology in Musicological Discourse’. the RMA/SOAS Study Day: Improvisation in Musical Performance, July, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (2004). ‘Subversion and Counter-subversion: Power, Control and Meaning in the New Iranian Pop Music’. Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 15-17 April, University of Aberdeen.
Nooshin, L. (2003). ‘Articulations of Power in Iranian Pop Music: Subversion and Counter-subversion’. Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2-5 October, Miami.
Nooshin, L. (2003). ‘Music, Islam and Nationhood: Competing Discourses of Identity in Iran’. 3rd Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music. 26-29 June, University of Nottingham.
Nooshin, L. (2003). ‘“Like a Thoroughbred”: Authority, Authenticity and Representations of the Past in Iranian Music’. 29th Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 1-4 May, University of Bangor.
Nooshin, L. (2002). ‘Circumnavigation with a Difference? Music, Globalisation and the Disney Experience: It's a Small, Small World’. the 28th Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology April, University of Edinburgh.
Nooshin, L. (1999). ‘From Prayers at Dawn to Techno in the Park: Iran's Changing Soundscapes’. 15th Annual Meeting of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology. 12-15 November, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (1999). ‘Meaningful Sounds: Iranian Music and the Negotiation of Identity'. at the Triennial British Musicological Societies' Conference July, University of Surrey.
Nooshin, L. (1998). ‘Meaningful Sounds: Hearts, Minds and the Negotiation of Iranian Identity’. 24th Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 27-29 March, University of Cambridge.
Nooshin, L. (1995). 'In Search of the Nightingale: Myth and Metaphor in Persian Classical Music’. 11th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology. 11-14 September, De Doelen Centre, Rotterdam, Holland.
Nooshin, L. (1995). ‘From the "Natives'" Points of Views? The Unbearable Lightness of Analysis’. 21st Annual Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (UK) 7-9 April, University of Durham.
Nooshin, L. (1995). ‘The Transparent Analyst: Objectivity in Musicology. Postgraduate Research Day. 11 March, Goldsmiths' College, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (1994). ‘Instrument Logic, Body Logic: The Aesthetics of Motivic Structure in Dastgah Segah’. 10th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology. 29 Aug 1994 – 2 Sep 1994, Music Faculty, University of Oxford.
Nooshin, L. (1992). ‘“Ta Seh Nasheh, Bazi Nasheh” (“Third Time Lucky”): Cross-cultural Considerations of Musical Structure’. the 18th Annual Conference of the ICTM (UK) April, Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside.
Nooshin, L. (1990). ‘Creative Procedures in Persian Classical Music’. 16th Annual Conference of the ICTM (UK) March, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (1989). ‘Searching for Musical Truth: The Nature of the Radif in Persian Classical Music’. the Postgraduate Research Day May, Goldsmiths' College, University of London.
Nooshin, L. (1987). ‘Composition or Improvisation? The Case of Persian Classical Music’. Postgraduate Research Day May, Goldsmiths' College, University of London.

Journal articles (18)

Nooshin, L. (2020). Parenting and Music Studies Forum. Ethnomusicology Forum, 29(3), pp. 269–275. doi:10.1080/17411912.2020.1873553.
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Nooshin, L. (2019). Windows onto Other Worlds: Music and the Negotiation of Otherness in Iranian Cinema. Music and the Moving Image, 12(3), pp. 25–57. doi:10.5406/musimoviimag.12.3.0025.
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Nooshin, L. (2018). "Our angel of salvation": Toward an understanding of Iranian cyberspace as an alternative sphere of musical sociality. Ethnomusicology, 62(3), pp. 341–374. doi:10.5406/ethnomusicology.62.3.0341.
Nooshin, L. (2017). Whose liberation? Iranian popular music and the fetishization of resistance. Popular Communication, 15(3), pp. 163–191. doi:10.1080/15405702.2017.1328601.
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Nooshin, L. (2013). Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music. Music Theory Online, 19(2).
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Nooshin, L. and Krüger, S. (2011). Editorial. Ethnomusicology Forum, 20(2), pp. 121–122. doi:10.1080/17411912.2011.607491.
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Nooshin, L. (2011). Introduction to the Special Issue: The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music. Ethnomusicology Forum, 20(3), pp. 285–300. doi:10.1080/17411912.2011.659439.
Brown, K.B. and Nooshin, L. (2007). Twentieth-Century Music: Editorial. Twentieth-Century Music, 3(1), pp. 3–3. doi:10.1017/S1478572207009024.
Brown, K. and Nooshin, L. (2007). ‘The Social Liminality of Musicians’. Special issue of the journal twentieth-century music, 3(1).
Nooshin, L. and Widdess, R. (2006). Improvisation in Iranian and Indian Music. Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, 36/37, pp. 104–119.
Nooshin, L. (2005). Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Discourses in Iran. Iranian Studies (Special Issue: Music and Society in Iran), 38(3), pp. 463–494.
Nooshin, L. (2004). Circumnavigation with a Difference? Music, Representation and the Disney Experience: It's a Small, Small World. Ethnomusicology Forum, 13(2), pp. 236–251.
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Nooshin, L. (2003). Improvisation as "other": Creativity, knowledge and power - The case of Iranian classical music. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 128, pp. 242–296.
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Nooshin, L. (2002). Ethnomusicology, Alterity and Disciplinary Identity. Or “Do We Still Need an Ethno-?”, “Do We Still Need an Ology?” British Forum for Ethnomusicology Newsletter, 23, pp. 17–20.
Nooshin, L. (1999). Review of Music and Song in Persia. The Art of Avaz by Lloyd Clifton Miller (1999,Curzon Press). British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 8, pp. 125–128.
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Nooshin, L. (1998). The Song of the Nightingale: Processes of Improvisation in Dastgah Segah (Iranian Classical Music). British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 7, pp. 69–116.
[publisher’s website]
Nooshin, L. (1992). ‘Review of The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music by Hormoz Farhat (1990, Cambridge University Press)’. The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. LV(Part 2), pp. 338–340.
[publisher’s website]
Nooshin, L. (1989). The Nature of the Radif and its Re-Creation in the Performance of Persian Classical
Music. The Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM UK), 24, pp. 18–37.

Thesis/dissertation

Nooshin, L. The Processes of Creation and Re-creation in Persian Classical Music. (PhD Thesis)

Professional activities

Editorial activity

Journal Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships

2012 – present Editorial Board member, Ethnomusicology Forum (Routledge)

2010 – present Editorial Board member, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (Brill)

2007 – 2011 Editor, Ethnomusicology Forum (Routledge)

2000 - 2013 Editorial Board member, Twentieth-Century Music (CUP) (founding member)

2006 - 2009 International Advisory Board member, Journal of the Royal Musical Association (Routledge)

2004 – 2007 Editorial Board member, Ethnomusicology Forum (Routledge).

Keynote lectures/speeches (3)

Keynote Speech: ‘Community of Catharsis: Cyberspace as Field Site'. University of Helsinki (2016). ‘100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland.
'100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland. Celebration Symposium’, Joint conference of the Finnish Musicological Society and the Finnish Ethnomusicological Society, University of Helsinki, Finland.
‘Islam, Modernity and Nationhood: Music and the Play of Identities in Post-Revolutionary Iran’. Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2004). talk presented as part of the Public Lecture Series Ethnomusicological Studies of Muslim Societies
‘Persian Classical Music’. Horniman Museum, London (1993). The 1993 Friends of Horniman Public Lecture

Online articles (33)

(CD) ‘Review of I Vinens Speil (In the Mirror of Wine) (Mahsa Vahdat, Skruk), Kirkelig Kulturversted’. (2011). Songlines: The World Music Magazine
(CD) Review of In the Name of the Rose (Dastan Ensemble, Salar Aghili), Celestial Harmonies 13300-2. (2011). Songlines: The World Music Magazine
(CD) ‘Review of Oy (Mohsen Namjoo), FabricaMusic CD'. (2010). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 73:81-2
(CD) ‘Review of Love Songs and Dance Music from Loristan, Etnisk Musikklubb’. (2010). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 73:83
(CD) ‘Review of Iran: Musiques du Golfe Persane, Musique du Monde, Buda'. (2010). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 66:75
(CD) ‘Review of Mayeh-ye Dashti, Mayeh-ye Isfahan (Dastan Ensemble, Homayoun Shajarian) , Celestial Harmonies, 14298-2’. (2009). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 63:76
‘Taking a Stand’ (feature about musicians' responses to the 2009 presidential elections in Iran). (2009). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 62:12
(CD) ‘Review of Acoustic World. Persia (Hossein Omoumi, Shahmirza Moradi, Sima Bina), Coro’. (2009). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 59:77
(CD) ‘Review of I Am Eve (Mahsa Vahdat, Marjan Vahdat, Atabak Elyasi), Kirkelig Kulturveksted’. (2009). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 58:78-9
(CD) ‘Review of Jostojoo, Forever Seeking (Mamak Khadem), Banyan Tree Production’. (2008). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 55:77
(CD) ‘Review of Songs from a Persian Garden (Marjan Vahdat, Mahsa Vahdat), FXCD 320'. (2008). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 50: 102
(CD) ‘Review of The Endless Ocean (Ensemble Dastan and Salar Aghili), Network 495120’. (2008). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 50:102
(CD) ‘Review of The Passion of Rumi, QuarterTone QTCD – 1010’. (2008). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 49:78
‘Beginner's Guide to Shahram Nazeri’. (2007). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 47:54-5
(CD) ‘Review of Persian and Middle Eastern Percussion, ARC Music, EUCD 1969’. (2006). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 39:73
‘Rockin' in Iran’, Feature on Iranian pop music. (2006). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 38: 34-5
‘Persepolis: Discovering the Music of Iran’. (2006). The Middle East in London Volume 2, Issue 11:12
(CD) ‘Review of Gol-e Behesht, Network 29.204’. (2006). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 36:89
(CD) ‘Review of Endless Vision, Hermes Records, HER021’. (2005). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 31:89
(CD) ‘Review of Calligraphes Vocales: L'Art du Chant Classique Persan, Accords Croisés, AC107’. (2005). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 31:89
(CD) ‘Review of Journey to Persia: Dastan Trio, ARC Music, EUCD 1786’. (2003). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 20:77
(CD) ‘Review of Shoorideh: Parissa and Ensemble Dastan, Network 24.253’. (2003). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 20:77
(CD) ‘Review of Music of the Persian Mystics, ARC Music, EUCD 1792’. (2003). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 19:93
(CD) ‘Review of Iran: Masters of Improvisation, Buda 1986082’. (2003). Songlines: The World Music Magazine Issue 17:85
(CD) ‘Review of Over the Wind, Traditional Crossroads 80702-4300-2’. (2001). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 12:100
(CD) ‘Review of Rozaneh, Erato/Detour 8573-85916-2’. (2001). Songlines Journeys in World Music Issue 11:107
(CD) ‘Review of Music of Kurdistan, Koch 333 36-2’. (1999). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 4:100
(CD) ‘Review of Quest, Songlines 2402-2’. (1999). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 4:98-100
(CD) ‘Review of Mystic Journey - String Music of Iran, Music of the World 155’. (1999). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 3:108
(CD) ‘Review of Musique Iranienne Authentique - Vol.3: Setar - Mas'oud Shaari, Club du Disque Arabe CDA 401, AAA 171’. (1999). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 3:108
(CD) ‘Review of Iran: Bardes du Khorasan, OCORA C560136’. (1999). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 2:90-3
(CD) ‘Review of The Art of Improvisation, Wergo SM 1530-2’. (1999). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 1:89
(CD) ‘Review of Scattering Stars like Dust, Traditional Crossroads CD4288’. (1999). Songlines: Journeys in World Music Issue 1: 90

Radio programmes (3)

World Routes. BBC Radio 3 reviewing current CDs of Iranian Music
World Routes. BBC Radio 3 reviewing current CDs of Iranian Music
Roses and Nightingales. BBC Radio 3 programme on Iranian classical music broadcast, in series of traditional music programmes

Other (5)

CD Liner Notes Liner for Faryad: Masters of Persian Music, with Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor and Homayoun Shajarian. World Village (USA), 468023..
2002. CD liner notes for Without You: Masters of Persian Music, performance by Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Hossein Alizadeh and Kayhan Kalhor. World Village (USA), 468011..
1999, CD liner notes for Through Eternity, Persian Devotional Music, with Shahram Nazeri and The Dastan Ensemble. Sounds True (USA). STA M112D. ISBN:1-56455-717-0..
1999. CD liner notes for Through Eternity, Persian Devotional Music, with Shahram Nazeri and the Dastan Ensemble. Sounds True (USA). STA M112D. ISBN: 1-56455-717-0..
2000. Interviewed by Maqam Journal (Iran); interview published in volume 6:116-119..