Hemmasi, Farzaneh

October 11, 2007 by fhemmasi

(BA in History from Oberlin 1997; MA in Ethnomusicology, Columbia, 2002) is studying the musics of Iran and Central Asia, as well as pop, electronic music, and dance club culture. Her MA thesis on a Brooklyn dance party scene called "Bang the Party" was entitled "BTP: Parties, Participants, and Practices." She presented a paper based on this work at the 2003 national meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and has an article forthcoming in the journal Popular Music based on the this research entitled “Dancing through Difference at a House Music Party.” Her current interests focus on music and media of Iran and the Iranian diaspora in the United States, a topic she pursued on a trip to Iran in the summer of 2004. Work based on this research will be presented at both the 2004 Society of Ethnomusicology National Conference and the American Anthropological Association meetings in November 2004. She is a Columbia Teaching Fellow (2001-present) and a Columbia University Hutner Fellow (2003-4), and has received a Columbia University Summer Travel Funding (Summer 2004), NYU Kevorkian Center tuition grant, and was awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for the study of Persian (2003).
Email: fh2008@columbia.edu

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