Name: Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon (33 1/3 Europe)
Brand: Nicholas Tochka

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9781501363061

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Limited edition

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2024-01-25

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Macmillan

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Nicholas Tochka 

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Music

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Bloomsbury Academic

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As market reforms were transforming citizenship in post-socialist Tirana, Albania, and Europe transitioned into its post-socialist state,&nbsp;Projekt Jon&nbsp;(1997)&nbsp;interrogated European identity formation. The resulting muzikë e lehtë (light music), with&nbsp;regional and wider-European influences,&nbsp;reflects an ideal undermined by political unrest and uncertainty.Projekt Jon―the Ionian Project―announces itself with the frenetic beating of the&nbsp;tupan&nbsp;and the traditional cries of Albania’s highland shepherd. The sprawling collaboration between singer-songwriter Ardit Gjebrea, traditional singer Hysni Zela, and a team of crack studio musicians in Italy, had an outsized ambition: to transcend Albania’s borders, imaginatively crafting in sound a new home in Europe for the post-socialist citizens of the embattled nation-state. But as Gjebrea prepared to take the album on tour, the homeland itself verged on the cusp of complete collapse. A civil war, the result of the cascading failure of pyramid schemes enabled by deep political corruption and massive social dislocations, loomed, and the tour became―at least for Gjebrea and other urban intellectuals―a referendum on the future of Albania.

Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon (33 1/3 Europe)

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Discover Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon (33 1/3 Europe) by Nicholas Tochka. Explore the transformative power of music in post-socialist Albania.