Audible States

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Audible States is written by Nicholas Tochka and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190646225 (ISBN 10) and 9780190646226 (ISBN 13).

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-socialist regimes between 1945 and the present.