Soccer’s Music and the Iranian identity

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Music and football are exciting parts of Iranian everyday life .This article claims that music in football prepares common identity that confront with a decrease in the opposite taste and ideals, unity and friendship.
The methodology of this paper is content analysis and comparative method for exploring the differences and similarities. For this research three kinds of music which resulted from 2006 till now are analyzed. The theoretical approach of this article is John Fiske’s idea that is concerned about the meaning, identity and resistance in everyday life. To explore this claim, in this article, there are three types of music which will be analyzed. They are: Mojaz, the music which is acceptable for the Iranian government and it is disputed from the Iranian T.V. Zirzamini, Which belongs to underground music and unacceptable to the Iranian government, That prepares and explains the resistance atmosphere in Iran. The music belongs to the Iranian music outside the borders of Iran. The common sense of all these kinds of music is supporting the national theme of football.

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