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Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s.(Book Review)
Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s. By Eno Koco. (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities, no. 2.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. [xxviii, 400 p. ISBN 0-8108-4889-2. $73. (hbk.); ISBN 0-8108-4890-2 $45. (pbk.).] Music examples, index, bibliography, 2 compact discs.
"The urban song must not remain only in the mouths of singers dressed in folk costumes and fez, but it needs to put on the modern dress of our time" (p. 59). Such is soprano Marie Kraja's explanation for the efforts of a generation of Albanian singers from the educated middle class, trained in western Europe in operatic technique, who returned home in the 1930s and transformed the older ...
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