Cover; Audible€States; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Administering Music; 2. Debating Song; 3. Cultivating Individuality; 4. Voicing Transition; 5. Promoting Albania; Epilogue:€Hearing Like a State; Appendix:€Research Materials; Notes; References; Index.
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In Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania, author 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 forty 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-socia.