Mohammad Reza Shajarian's Avaz in Iran and Beyond, 1979-2010 is a comprehensive study of the legacy of Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the greatest living exponent of

The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts, by Rob Simms and Amir Koushkani, examines the traditional art of singing classical Persia

The Other Classical Musics will help both students and general readers to appreciate musical traditions mostly unfamiliar to them.

Questions of creativity, and particularly the processes which underlie creative performance or ’improvisation’, form some of the central areas of interest i

The word motreb finds its roots in the Arabic verb taraba, meaning ‘to make happy.’ Originally denoting all musicians in Iran, motrebi came to be associated