Laudan Nooshin is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at City University, London, UK. From 2008-2011, Laudan was co-Editor of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum. She has published widely on various aspects of Iranian music culture, including creative processes in Iranian classical music and music and youth culture in Iran. Recent publications include the edited volume Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (2009).