As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early
1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world
music and Italian pop. The resulting album, Projekt Jon (1997),
provided a new model for song—Western and cosmopolitan, yet
firmly rooted in the fertile soil of the nation—against a
backdrop of deepening political uncertainty about the very future
of Albania. The Ionian Project announced itself with the frenetic
beating of the daullë and the traditional cries of Albania’s
highland shepherd. This sprawling collaboration between
singer-songwriter Ardit Gjebrea, folk singer Hysni Zela, producer
Paul Mazzolini, and a team of crack studio musicians in Italy, had
an outsized ambition: to transcend the small postsocialist
nation-state’s borders, imaginatively crafting through sound a
new home in Europe for its citizens. But as Gjebrea prepared to
launch Projekt Jon, violence prompted by the collapse of widespread
pyramid schemes threatened to tear Albania apart. And for the
intellectuals concerned about growing cracks in the symbolic
foundations of the Albanian nation-state, the album came to serve
as a referendum on the nature of postsocialist citizenship.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic USA
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
33 1/3 Europe |
Release date: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Nicholas Tochka
(Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology)
|
Dimensions: |
197 x 127mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5013-6306-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-5013-6306-9 |
Barcode: |
9781501363061 |
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