Nicholas Tochka
Biographic Data
| ID | 192384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Tochka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Tochka |
| SIGNATURE | TOCHKA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0964-0827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band as ‘first-person music: Notes on the Politics of Self-Expression in Rock Music Since 1970
In late 1970, John Lennon began promoting his first post-Beatles solo album, Plastic Ono Band , which he described as ‘first-person music’ to Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner. This essay situates the album and two of Lennon's promotional interviews within an emergent politics of individualism in order to explore how self-expression became an aesthetic practice and critical value in rock music. The album's reception and promotion help reveal how k…
Singing ‘with culture: Popular musicians and affective labour in state-socialist Albania
This article examines how composers, bureaucrats and musicians themselves disciplined the singer’s body in state-socialist Albania. Drawing together film analysis and interviews with socialist-era musicians, I analyse the constraints imposed on performing bodies in order to explore the political consequences of singers’ affective labour during the 1970s and 1980s. My analysis reveals how the most popular stars crafted performing personae, as ‘cul…
Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania
In 'Audible States', Nicholas Tochka traces an aural history of Albania's government through a close examination of the development and reception of light music as it has long been broadcast at an annual song competition, Radio-Television Albania's Festival of Song. Drawing on a wide range of archival resources and over 40 interviews with composers, lyricists, singers, and bureaucrats, Tochka describes how popular music became integral to governm…
The Art of Making Do In Naples
Book Review| February 01 2015 The Art of Making Do In Naples The Art of Making Do In Naples. Jason Pine. 2012. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. x, 360 pp., black and white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Nicholas Tochka Nicholas Tochka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2015) 59 (1): 161–164. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.59.1.0161 Views Ic…
"To "Enlighten And Beautify: Western Music and the Modern Project of Personhood in Albania, c. 1906-1924
Between 1920 and 1924, self-described progressives began importing and promoting western concert music in order to "civilize" Albania's population. Questions of sovereignty, civilization, and government came to be intermeshed in their plans "to enlighten and beautify the soul of the individual." This article demonstrates how progressives introduced into Albanian politics the modern project of personhood through their concern for the individual. I…
Voicing freedom, sounding dissent: Popular music, simulation and citizenship in democratizing Albania, 1991–1997
Between 1991 and 1997, Western-style rock and popular music in postsocialist Albania came to be targeted for processes of democratization and de-communization. In this article, I examine how efforts to imaginatively locate and musically voice ‘freedom’ and ‘dissent’ through popular musicians’ performances articulated to a nominally democratic order that necessitated ‘free’ citizens. Starting from Nikolas Rose’s notion of ‘freedom as a formula of …
Pussy Riot, freedom of expression, and popular music studies after the Cold War
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Voicing freedom, sounding dissent: Popular music, simulation and citizenship in democratizing Albania, 1991–1997
Between 1991 and 1997, Western-style rock and popular music in postsocialist Albania came to be targeted for processes of democratization and de-communization. In this article, I examine how efforts to imaginatively locate and musically voice ‘freedom’ and ‘dissent’ through popular musicians’ performances articulated to a nominally democratic order that necessitated ‘free’ citizens. Starting from Nikolas Rose’s notion of ‘freedom as a formula of …
Singing ‘with culture: Popular musicians and affective labour in state-socialist Albania
This article examines how composers, bureaucrats and musicians themselves disciplined the singer’s body in state-socialist Albania. Drawing together film analysis and interviews with socialist-era musicians, I analyse the constraints imposed on performing bodies in order to explore the political consequences of singers’ affective labour during the 1970s and 1980s. My analysis reveals how the most popular stars crafted performing personae, as ‘cul…
"To "Enlighten And Beautify: Western Music and the Modern Project of Personhood in Albania, c. 1906-1924
Between 1920 and 1924, self-described progressives began importing and promoting western concert music in order to "civilize" Albania's population. Questions of sovereignty, civilization, and government came to be intermeshed in their plans "to enlighten and beautify the soul of the individual." This article demonstrates how progressives introduced into Albanian politics the modern project of personhood through their concern for the individual. I…
Voicing freedom, sounding dissent: Popular music, simulation and citizenship in democratizing Albania, 1991–1997
Between 1991 and 1997, Western-style rock and popular music in postsocialist Albania came to be targeted for processes of democratization and de-communization. In this article, I examine how efforts to imaginatively locate and musically voice ‘freedom’ and ‘dissent’ through popular musicians’ performances articulated to a nominally democratic order that necessitated ‘free’ citizens. Starting from Nikolas Rose’s notion of ‘freedom as a formula of …
Pussy Riot, freedom of expression, and popular music studies after the Cold War
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Art of Making Do In Naples
Book Review| February 01 2015 The Art of Making Do In Naples The Art of Making Do In Naples. Jason Pine. 2012. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. x, 360 pp., black and white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Nicholas Tochka Nicholas Tochka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2015) 59 (1): 161–164. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.59.1.0161 Views Ic…
"To "Enlighten And Beautify: Western Music and the Modern Project of Personhood in Albania, c. 1906-1924
Between 1920 and 1924, self-described progressives began importing and promoting western concert music in order to "civilize" Albania's population. Questions of sovereignty, civilization, and government came to be intermeshed in their plans "to enlighten and beautify the soul of the individual." This article demonstrates how progressives introduced into Albanian politics the modern project of personhood through their concern for the individual. I…
Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania
In 'Audible States', Nicholas Tochka traces an aural history of Albania's government through a close examination of the development and reception of light music as it has long been broadcast at an annual song competition, Radio-Television Albania's Festival of Song. Drawing on a wide range of archival resources and over 40 interviews with composers, lyricists, singers, and bureaucrats, Tochka describes how popular music became integral to governm…
Singing ‘with culture: Popular musicians and affective labour in state-socialist Albania
This article examines how composers, bureaucrats and musicians themselves disciplined the singer’s body in state-socialist Albania. Drawing together film analysis and interviews with socialist-era musicians, I analyse the constraints imposed on performing bodies in order to explore the political consequences of singers’ affective labour during the 1970s and 1980s. My analysis reveals how the most popular stars crafted performing personae, as ‘cul…
John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band as ‘first-person music: Notes on the Politics of Self-Expression in Rock Music Since 1970
In late 1970, John Lennon began promoting his first post-Beatles solo album, Plastic Ono Band , which he described as ‘first-person music’ to Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner. This essay situates the album and two of Lennon's promotional interviews within an emergent politics of individualism in order to explore how self-expression became an aesthetic practice and critical value in rock music. The album's reception and promotion help reveal how k…
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