{"product_id":"ardit-gjebreas-projekt-jon","title":"Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs 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, \u003ci\u003eProjekt Jon \u003c\/i\u003e(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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ionian Project announced itself with the frenetic beating of the \u003ci\u003edaullë\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eProjekt Jon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47790601077080,"sku":"9781501363078","price":77.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501363078_ba97cdad-a25d-4ef9-9308-4e1c8882a83f.jpg?v=1769769031","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ardit-gjebreas-projekt-jon","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}