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Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania book cover

1st Edition

Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania

By Eckehard Pistrick Copyright 2015
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of migration music in postsocialist Albania, Eckehard Pistrick identifies links between sound, space, emotionality and... Read more
1 Introduction: Sound, Space and Mobility 2 Vocal Multipart Practice in Albania 3 Reading the Absences – Approaching the Field 4 Migration and Mobility in Albania 5 Migration, Emotions and Creativity 6 Migration in Performance – Village Feasts and Nostalgia 7 ‘The Deep Wound? – Memorialising Migration 8 Two Absences – Migration up to Death 9 Conclusion: Sound, Space and Mobility – Lessons from the Albanian Case

Biography

Eckehard Pistrick is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in ethnomusicology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany with a focus on Southeast Europe. He is an associate member of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM), Paris and has, since 2004, conducted extensive fieldwork in Albania as well as in Greece, Bulgaria and Kosovo.

"The book stands comfortably above disciplines to offer an excellent anthropological study of migration songs, based on a well-researched case study: Southern Albanian villages and the surrounding regions." - Zana Vathi, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

"The book remains a valuable contribution to the scholarship on migration in South Alabania, and around the world. I would recommend it storngly to those interested in migration in general, and specifically the migration in contemporary Albania." - Islam Jusufi, Tirana

"The accompanying multimedia DVD containing both sound and video examples is excellent; it helps the reader by capturing the intricate and unique characteristics of this singing which no muscial transcription can fully do justice to. As such, this book should be valuable to scholars of migration studies, and anyone interested in the intersection between musical creativity and emotionally."- Philip Ciantar, University of Malta

 

 

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