blog post 4: googoosh

googoosh hejrat



Googoosh seems to fit into the style of popular music. She has the siren qualiteis that lure in her fans. The music is a heterophonic composition that features an entire symphony and googoosh's lead vocals. The chordophones and aerophones that accompany her help to create a sophisticated mood so the popular music could also be argued as more classical as well. Her vocals have a very distinct melodic contour that emphasizes her range and control. The tone of her voice is very warm and helps add to the entire mood of the composition. The harmonic melodic? minor scale that the piece is based in also contributes to the rather dark and warm tone. The harmonic minor scale can seem to be dangerously categorized as "world music" in the sense that it sounds "exotic" to the unfamiliar ear. I believe that this is the danger in judging the music because more than likely within googoosh's culture those scales sound like a I-IV-V progression to the American ear.