Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon

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Professor or Dr. Nicholas Tochka (Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Melbourne, Australia)

Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon

Professor or Dr. Nicholas Tochka (Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Melbourne, Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
21 March 2024

Folk & traditional music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: 33 1/3 Europe

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.

The Ionian Project announced itself with the frenetic beating of the daullë and the traditional cries of Albania’s highland shepherd. This sprawling collaboration between singer-songwriter Ardit Gjebrea, folk singer Hysni Zela, producer Paul Mazzolini, and a team of crack studio musicians in Italy, had an outsized ambition: to transcend the small postsocialist nation-state’s borders, imaginatively crafting through sound a new home in Europe for its citizens. But as Gjebrea prepared to launch Projekt Jon, violence prompted by the collapse of widespread pyramid schemes threatened to tear Albania apart. And for the intellectuals concerned about growing cracks in the symbolic foundations of the Albanian nation-state, the album came to serve as a referendum on the nature of postsocialist citizenship.

By: Professor or Dr. Nicholas Tochka (Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology University of Melbourne Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781501363078
ISBN 10: 1501363077
Series: 33 1/3 Europe
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicholas Tochka is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He is the author of Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania (2016) and Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America (2023).