Albanian music in the streets of socialist construction: institutions and institutionalization Cover Image

Muzika shqiptare në rrugët e ndërtimit socialist: institucione dhe institucionalizim
Albanian music in the streets of socialist construction: institutions and institutionalization

Author(s): Mikaela Minga
Subject(s): Anthropology, Music, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Art
Published by: Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike – Instituti i Antropologjisë Kulturore dhe Studimit të Artit
Keywords: institutionalization; musical discourse; state socialism; modernity; history of music;

Summary/Abstract: This article takes into consideration a specific period in the history of music in Albania: the one that runs from the mid 1940s until the 1960s. The focus is on the process of musical institutionalization during the dictatorial regime. I am not referring just to a history of musical instititions but to that complex and thorough process of institutionalization that took place during that period. The research method combines the institutional memory traced from archival data sources and the discourse about music. It is an ethnomusicological approach in the study of the history of albanian music.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 41-63
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Albanian