Wind of Change: l'era del cambiamento nella musica e nella letteratura albanese dei primi anni ’90

Abstract

The "winds of change" is a metaphor used for approaching aspects of Albanian music and literature in the immediate years after the communist regime fall. The author focuses in particular on the period between 1990 and 1994, the transitional phase when there was a departure from the aesthetic and ideological frame that had long influenced the arts, consenting a long-awaited possibility of free self-expression. The disintegration of the old cultural system allowed different agencies, witnessing some interesting developments. Although initially fuzzy, they aimed at recovering repertoires that the communist regime had silenced.