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The Golha ('Flowers of Persian Song and Music') comprise 1578 radio programmes consisting of approximately 847 hours of programmes broadcast over a period of 23 years - from 1956 through 1979. These programmes are made up of literary commentary with the declamation of poetry, which is sung with musical accompaniment, interspersed with solo musical pieces. For the 23 years that these programmes were broadcast, all the most eminent literary critics, famous radio announcers, singers, composers and musicians in Persia were invited to participate in them. The programmes were exemplars of excellence in the sphere of music and refined examples of literary expression, making use of a repertoire of over 250 classical and modern Persian poets, setting literary and musical standards that are still looked up to with admiration in Persia today and referred to by scholars and musicians as an encyclopedia of Persian music and poetry.
During the initial years of the Iranian Revolution, when the verse and song of the great Persian poets were considered to be counter-revolutionary, such that music was completely banned and recitation of manny Persian poets frowned upon, the participants in the Golha programmes sought refuge in the privacy of their homes.
Since within the next few decades, much of this unique documentary heritage of music may be lost or left to deteriorate, it's very important that these programmes be collected, preserved and stored in an academic institution outside Persia so that this valuable and representative epitome of Persian literary and musical culture be made available to future scholars of Persian literature, music & culture. The project proposes to collect and construct a digital archive of all those Golha programmes that were produced by the original producer Mr. Davoud Pirnia, in order to store these for access to academic researchers of Persian music and literature in the British Library under the auspices of the Endangered Archives Programme.
The Golha radio programmes (Flowers of Persian Song and Poetry)
Labels: Art, Persian heritage, Persian language
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