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Ms Jane Lewisohn

AFA, BA

Honorary Research Fellow

Biographical Details

Jane Lewisohn lived in Iran during the 1970s for over five years and is a graduate of Pahalavi University, Shiraz, Iran. She has been involved in the research and promotion of various aspects of Persian Studies for the last three decades. Since 2005 she has been directing the Golha Project under the auspices of the British Library, London, and the Music Department of SOAS, University of London. She has archived and digitalised the whole archive of the Golha radio programmes broadcast on Iranian Radio from 1956 through 1979. She is now working in collaboration with the IHF to make this Golha Archive and all the related research concerning the Golha Archive available over the internet.

For more information, visit www.golha.co.uk.

Research interests

Research interests include all aspects of Persian culture and society.

Publications

Flowers of Persian Song and Music: Davud Pirniā and the Genesis of the Golhā Programs, in Journal of Persianate Studies 1 (2008) 79-101

Flowers of Persian Song and Music The Gulha Programs. CD with liner notes. SOASIS catalogue No. 20 2009

Gulha-ya Avaz va musiqi-yi Irani: Davud Pirnia va aghaz-i barnama-yi Gulha. Trans. M. R. Purja’fari. Falzlnama-yi musiqi-yi Mahur No. 44 (Winter 2009) Tehran Iran.

 

For more information please download Jane Lewisohn's CV (30 kb Word document)