ALBANIAN URBAN LYRIC SONG, AUDIENCE AND CRITICAL NOTICES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY
ALBANIAN URBAN LYRIC SONG, AUDIENCE AND CRITICAL NOTICES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The urban songs, traditional and lyric, composed on the extreme western edge of the Ottoman Empire, represented a fashionable version of the local urban song. This new type of song was initially created in the main centres of the Ottoman administration, in the Albanian paçaliks, those of Bushati in the north, with its capital at Shkodra, and of Ali Pasha Tepelena in the south, with its capital at Janina.

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