VOA标准英语2012--Iranian-American Musician Mixes Music Styles
时间：2012-04-13 06:19:07
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Iranian-American Musician Mixes Music Styles
At home in Austin, Shafinury plays the Persian setar. Iranians love this music, but Shafinury says others are intrigued1 by it.
"Americans find it exotic, mysterious and interesting, but they can relate to it," he says.
On a hot day in Austin, Shafinury sometimes shares his music with friends on a hillside near a spring-fed pool.
Shawn Bayly plays rock and
blues2 with a local band, but he joined in the Persian jam.
"I like to listen to everything and I like to try to play everything I hear," Bayly says. "I was listening to him and trying to find the chords and
accentuate3 some of the melodies."
Fared Shafinury was born and raised in Texas. His parents
immigrated4 from Iran, and he heard classical Persian music at home and everything from country and rock to Mexican Tejano outside.
"I don't know if I am Iranian, American, Hispanic, Texan," adds Shafinury. "Texan is an identity. Who am I?"
He says he plays music to sort it all out.
Although the melodies are first and foremost Persian, other influences creep in.
"It's very jazzy, actually. Persian music has these scales and within the
parameter6 of these scales you have different
melodic7 frameworks and within each framework of melody you have some liberty to
improvise8 and create upon," Shafinury explains.
Whether playing solo or with a group of Iranian and American musicians called Tehranosaurus, Shafinury says his goal is to bridge cultures.
"That's my ultimate goal. It is to bring understanding between cultures, between nations, between different people from all walks of life," Shafinury notes.
This month, Fared Shafinury will play a series of concerts with Tehranosaurus in San Francisco before returning to Austin.
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