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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136229403321

Autore

Tochka Nicholas

Titolo

Audible states : socialist politics and popular music in Albania / / Nicholas Tochka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-064622-5

0-19-046784-3

0-19-046783-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

781.64094965

Soggetti

Popular music - Political aspects - Albania

Music and state

Popular music - Albania - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Administering music -- Debating song -- Cultuvating individuality -- Voicing transition -- Promoting Albania -- Hearing like a state.

Sommario/riassunto

In 'Audible States', Nicholas Tochka traces an aural history of Albania's government through a close examination of the development and reception of light music as it has long been broadcast at an annual song competition, Radio-Television Albania's Festival of Song. Drawing on a wide range of archival resources and over 40 interviews with composers, lyricists, singers, and bureaucrats, Tochka describes how popular music became integral to governmental projects to improve society and a major concern for both state-socialist and post-socialist regimes between 1945 and the present.