University of Texas at Austin
Golriz Shayani is a Ph.D. student in Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the relationship between worship music, affect, community-, and place-making among Iranian/Persian-speaking Christians in the diaspora.
Persian Christian Worship Music: A Medium for Negotiating Religious and National Identities
In this ethnographic study, I investigate the socio-cultural mechanisms through which diasporic Persian Christians develop their worship music repertoire, and how does their music reflect Persian Christians’ nationality and religious identity.
Sessions
Finding Meaning in Feminism and the Divine