Nahid Siamdoust, who is at Yale as the inaugural Ehsan Yarshater Fellow in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center, is a cultural historian whose work concentrates primarily on the intersection between politics and various modes of cultural production and media forms in Iran and the wider Middle East, with a focus on questions of cultural mediation, political power, and social movements. We talk with Professor Siamdoust about her book, Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran.