Ardit Gjebrea's Projekt Jon

by Nicholas Tochka

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501363069
• ISBN13: 9781501363061
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"