Author

Nasim Niknafs

Observed names: Niknafs, N, Niknafs, Nasim

Observed institutions: Northwestern University, University of Toronto, Kingston University London, Iran University of Art

ORCID: 0000-0002-0626-3229

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-0626-3229

OpenAlex ID: A5000356649

“Ma’am! You’re Being Randomly Checked”: A Music Education Terrorized

2017 · Nasim Niknafs · Action Criticism and Theory for Music Education · 26

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Engaging with Popular Music from a Cultural Standpoint: A Concept-Oriented Framework

2019 · Nasim Niknafs · Music Educators Journal · 25

Music education as the herald of a cosmopolitan collective imperative: On being human

2019 · Nasim Niknafs · International Journal of Music Education · 23

In a box: a narrative of a/n (under)grounded Iranian musician

2016 · Nasim Niknafs · Music Education Research · 20

Free Improvisation

2013 · Nasim Niknafs · Journal of General Music Education · 17

Teaching and Learning Popular Music in Higher Education Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Practice What You Preach

2015 · Liz Przybylski, Nasim Niknafs · IASPM Journal · 13

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Wherein Apocalypse: The Time Being in Music Education

2022 · Nasim Niknafs · Action Criticism and Theory for Music Education · 9

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Tehran's Epistemic Heterotopia Resisting Music Education

2018 · Nasim Niknafs · Philosophy of Music Education Review · 9

The Story of a Man Without Lips: Representational Politics in Iranian Music Education

2017 · Nasim Niknafs · Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education · 6

2017 · Nasim Niknafs, Liz Przybylski · Routledge eBooks · 4

“Something for All of Us”: Indie Ethics in Popular Music Education

2019 · Lloyd McArton, Nasim Niknafs · 3

“You Got To Know Us”: A Hopeful Model for Music Education in Urban Schools

2013 · Frank Martignetti, Brent C. Talbot, et al. · The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College (Gettysburg College) · 3

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“Khas-o-Khâshâk” 1 : Anarcho-Improv in the Tehrani Music Education Scene

2017 · Nasim Niknafs · Routledge eBooks · 2

Getting Stuck in ‘Close-Enough’ Democracy: Working the Ruins of Intercultural School Music Education Towards Post-Ethical Utopias

2024 · Alexis Anja Kallio, Nasim Niknafs · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · 1

Poetics of Suffering and Acoustic Properties of Endurance in Iran

2021 · Nasim Niknafs · Routledge eBooks · 1

Ingratitude and the Politics of Obligation

2020 · Nasim Niknafs · Routledge eBooks · 1

Nonregulated Assessment in Music Education

2019 · Nasim Niknafs · 1

Identity, Legitimacy, and Language: Subtleties of Music Education Research in the Non-Singular World

2018 · Nasim Niknafs · Landscapes: the arts, aesthetics, and education · 1

Stand With Us

2025 · Nasim Niknafs · Oxford University Press eBooks

Feminism(s) and Music Education

2025 · Marissa Silverman, Nasim Niknafs · Oxford University Press eBooks

Apocalyptic Blindness of Contemporary Music Education: Four Theses on the Future

2025 · Nasim Niknafs · Philosophy of Music Education Review

Nā-kojā-Ābād

2024 · Nasim Niknafs · Oxford University Press eBooks

Moral Economy of Death in Music Education

2024 · Nasim Niknafs · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks

‘The Battlefield’

2024 · Nasim Niknafs

Musicking Matters: Music making and music education as social and cultural resistances

2024 · de Bruin, L, Southcott, J, et al. · Minerva Access (University of Melbourne)

Works count: 36

Citation count: 166

H-index: 8

I10-index: 6