Audible states
Subtitle: socialist politics and popular music in Albania
By: Nicholas Tochka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780190467814; 9780190467821
Subjects: Popular music; Music and state; History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Administering music; title: Debating song; title: Cultivating individuality; title: Voicing transition; title: Promoting Albania; title: Hearing like a state.