MBI AUTORIN NË FUSHË TË MUZIKOLOGJISË/ABOUT THE AUTHOR IN THE FIELD OF MUSICOLOGY
“Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s, Project Muse, December 2005: It is the Albanian 'lyric' song of the 1930s and the singers, instrumentalists, composer-arrangers, and lyricists who developed it that are the primary subject of Eno Koço's excellent and well-researched study. As the first monograph in English to examine an urban song repertoire from southeastern Europe, and the first to detail musical life in the region in the early twentieth century, it will be revelatory for international readers. ... It belongs in every university library supporting programs in ethnomusicology, folklore, and European or East European Studies, as well as any library that serves the large Albanian communities living in English-speaking areas.”
-Jane C. Sugarman, State University of New York, Stony Brook
“Your Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s makes a truly extraordinary contribution to modern musical scholarship, for it treats Albania music in so many of its facets in a history of twentieth-century Europe. Your approach is exemplary in so many ways, not least among your use of comparisons and variants to make a case for an Albanian music that stretches across boundaries, styles, and social categories. You do Albania a great service, of course, by making such a compelling case for its music. You also make a singular contribution to ethnomusicology by examining a music that f orms at the many interstices determining the character of a modern nation. And, of course, you lovingly portray the music that brought distinction to your own f amily. I can only utter a loud chorus of Bravos!”
-Phil Bohlman, The University of Chicago, September 24, 2004
“A Journey of the Vocal Iso(n), Project Muse, March 2017: Chapter 7, one of the most valuable in the book, examines Byzantine and related chanting in Albanian communities. Koço discusses Lorenzo Tardo's views on the early existence of the ison and the character of these repertoires, and, following Giuseppe Ferrari, clearly differentiates the oral chanting of the Italo-Albanians from the 'Byzantine art music of the great cathedrals' (p. 115).... Eno Koço is to be applauded f or both the breadth of his vision and the ambitious nature of this project. If, in the end, his book is more of a source on which to build future research than an overarching narrative, that is a legitimate result of such an undertaking and entirely consistent with the author's declared aims.”
-Ivan Moody CESEMUniversidade Nova, Lisbon
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