AMENEH YOUSSEFZADEH
Iranian-born Ameneh Youssefzadeh studied musicology at Sorbonne University-Paris IV and ethnomusicology at Nanterre University-Paris X. Under the supervision of Jean During, she obtained her PhD focusing on the music of the bards of Northern Khorasan. Her area of musical interest is Khorasan and its different ethics groups: Turks, Kurds, and Persians. She has also done extensive research on music in Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979; a segment of her research was published as "The Situation of Music in Iran since the Revolution: the Role of Official Organizations" in the British Journal of Ethnomusicology. Ms. Youssefzadeh is the author of Les bardes du Khorassan iranien: le bakhshi et son repertoire, which is accompanied by a CD with photographs, and of numerous articles and CD compilations. Currently residing in Paris, she is an active member of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique research team Monde Iranien and a member of the French Society of Ethnomusicology.