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Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in
musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and
imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help
them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and
belongings? In this study of migration music in postsocialist
Albania, Eckehard Pistrick identifies links between sound, space,
emotionality and mobility in performance, provides new insights
into the controversial relationship between sound and migration,
and sheds light on the cultural effects of migration processes.
Central to Pistrick's approach is the essential role of
emotionality for musical creativity which is highlighted throughout
the volume: pain and longing are discussed not as a traumatising
end point, but as a driving force for human action and as a source
for cultural creativity. In addition, the study provides a
fascinating overview about the current state of a rarely documented
vocal tradition in Europe that is a part of the mosaic of
Mediterranean singing traditions. It refers to the challenges
imposed onto this practice by heritage politics, the dynamics of
retraditionalisation and musical globalisation. In this sense the
book constitutes an important study to the dynamics of
postsocialism as seen from a musicological perspective. Winner of
the 2017 Stavro Skendi Book Prize for Achievement in Albanian
Studies, Society for Albanian Studies Dr. Pistrick's book, in the
committee's judgment, impressively connects ethnomusicology,
anthropology and migration studies. Linking sound with space and
emotionality, it offers a new understanding of the role of the oral
tradition within Albanian communities, in particular its ability to
deal creatively with painful experiences and the realities of
migration. Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian
Studies
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