In this article beside allusion to category of culture and its role on societies, have been discussed on one of the cultural and social diseases in recent centuries that is called alienation. Then after searching on role of cultural and musical transformation and its relationship with alienation, in the position of fundamental axis of article, have been studied in synthetic word that is musical alienation. In the direction of clarification and explanation of musical alienation, this allusion divided in two constitutional that are musical alienation of external culture and musical alienation of internal culture. In the direction of purposes of the article that are searching and illustration of digressive and modernist happening in Iranian music and its causes of the existence, each of these categories are divided with branching and scientific sharing into several subclasses. Therefore musical alienation of external culture is divided in three subclasses in a surrounding of the theoretical principles, musical products and musical material culture, and also musical alienation of internal culture that is divided in two subclasses: civic culture and native culture.

alienation is defined as getting away from human values and being distanced from maturity and self-esteem due to an inability to know oneself. alienation has been the center of attention for scholars since ancient times but with industrialization it has resurfaced in a new way. In the 20th century "alienation" as a harmful phenomenon was dealt with by thinkers from different fields including law, medicine, and sociology in industrial societies and western countries. Scientists in western world noticed that industrialization brings with it human beings who are alienated. alienation has been noted in Persian literature as well. Naser Khosrow is one of the classical poets who has talked about the value of human beings, discusses alienation based on his social, economical, political and cultural condition of his time. In his writings he warns human beings' against forgetfulness and ignorance. He believes that by getting caught in the worldly luxuries, human beings lose their esteemed status.