Rock the Casbah Sweater by Iris Schreier

Rock the Casbah Sweater

Knitting
October 2023
Sport (12 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 26 rows = 4 inches
in Stockinette
US 7 - 4.5 mm
1300 - 2600 yards (1189 - 2377 m)
Sizes 1 (2, 3, 4) (5,6) Bust Circumference: 34-38 (40-44, 46-50, 52-56) (58-62, 64-68)”
English
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The interesting lines in the top-down stranded sweater remind me of designs used in the construction of Moroccan tiles.

It’s a fun fun knit, with charts for the various sizes to identify the stranded knitting colorwork.

Here are the specs:
Materials A: 2 (3, 3, 3) (4, 4) skeins Merino Cloud in a solid or tonal color (shown in 2395) for long sleeves. Sizes 2 and 5 can deduct 1 skein for short sleeves.
B: 1 (1, 1, 1) (2, 2) skeins Merino Cloud in an ombre color (shown in 741)
Stitch markers
Size 6 US circular needles for ribbing
Size 7 US circular needles for body
Size 7 US dpn or short circular needles for sleeves
Size Sizes 1 (2, 3, 4) (5,6)
Bust Circumference: 34-38 (40-44, 46-50, 52-56) (58-62, 64-68)”

Gauge 22 sts x 26 rows = 4” x 4” in Stockinette pattern

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About Rock the Casbah (from Wikipedia): The song gives a fabulist account of a ban on Western rock music by a Middle Eastern king.5 The lyrics describe the king’s efforts to enforce and justify the ban, and the populace’s protests against it by holding rock concerts in temples and squares (“rocking the casbah”). This culminates in the king ordering his military’s fighter jets to bomb the protestors; however, after taking off, the pilots ignore his orders and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios, joining the protest and implying the loss of the king’s power.

The events depicted in the song are similar to an actual ban on Western music, including rock music, enforced in Iran since the Iranian Revolution. Though classical music and public concerts were briefly permitted in the 1980s and 1990s, the ban was reinstated in 2005, and has remained in force ever since. Western music is still distributed in Iran through black markets, and Iranian rock music artists are forced to record in secret, under threat of arrest.