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Audible states : socialist politics and popular music in Albania / Nicholas Tochka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tochka, Nicholas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Political aspects--Albania.
- Popular music.
- Music and state.
- Popular music--Albania--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Administering music
- Debating song
- Cultuvating individuality
- Voicing transition
- Promoting Albania
- Hearing like a state.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-064622-5
- 0-19-046784-3
- 0-19-046783-5
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