Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s

This resource aims to introduce Western audiences to what is perhaps the least known, heard or discussed urban folk—music in Europe. Although this music—Albanian urban song—is the most prominent of Albanian musical genres, it has continuously been overlooked by musicologists in favor of rural folk—music. Some commentators have implied that Albanian urban music was not as genuinely Albanian as the music of its mountains and countryside. But it is no less a part of the country's musical histo...