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CATEGORIES:Séminaire du CREM, CREM
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SUMMARY:Even the gods die… Regional crying and national mourning for the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha, Bledar Kondi (Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg)
LOCATION:Salle 308F du LESC (3e étage) - MSH Mondes (bât. Ginouvès) \n21\, allée de
l’Université\, Nanterre\, \, 92000\,
DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on the death, state funeral and national mourning
for the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha (1908-1985). Hoxha’s first
(natural) death in 1985 and second (political) death in 1991, generate a f
ull circle of events from the immortalisation to the damnation of an absolu
te monarch, from anti-communist iconoclasm to bittersweet nostalgia for the
dictatorship. The one-week long mortuary ceremony, the public work of mour
ning, commemorative rites and national folk festivals, the Pharaonic immort
alisation in a pyramidal museum were all structured so as to articulate the
reality of death according to the specific grammar of a totalitarian world
view. The female vocalisation of painful shock and grief crisis through pu
blic ritual “crying with howls” (e qarë me ulërimë) and “crying with words”
(e qarë me ligje) aimed to tell of the unspeakable, to discharge the insuf
ferable, to deny the unimaginable: death of the deathless leader. \n\n How
can one “measure” the loss of a deified dictator? Do the limits of crying i
mply the limits of loss? The affective-political drama upon the dictator’s
death will be interpreted to the measure it was experienced and enacted by
three groups of the socio-political hierarchy: political bureau, common peo
ple and class enemy. Dictatorial regimes have the most self-evident manifes
tations of music as an attribute of power, social control and cultural repr
ession. Hence the musical drama within the political drama help us to under
stand how death of a leader breaks the ideologically frozen forms of consci
ousness and the synchronised rhythm of socialist life, how it sheds light o
n the “unpredictable past” of the regime and contributes to an essential un
derstanding of dictatorship as experience.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This presentation focuses on the death,
state funeral and national mourning for the Albanian communist dictator Env
er Hoxha (1908-1985). Hoxha’s first (natural) death in 1985 and second (pol
itical) death in 1991, generate a full circle of events from the immortalis
ation to the damnation of an absolute monarch, from anti-communist iconocla
sm to bittersweet nostalgia for the dictatorship. The one-week long mortuary ceremony, the pu
blic work of mourning, commemorative rites and national folk festivals, the
Pharaonic immortalisation in a pyramidal museum were all structured so as
to articulate the reality of death according to the specific grammar of a t
otalitarian world view. The female vocalisation of painful shock and grief crisis through pub
lic ritual “crying with howls” (e qarë me ulërimë) and “crying with
words” (e qarë me ligje) aimed to tell of the unspeakable, to discha
rge the insufferable, to deny the unimaginable: death of the deathless lead
er.
H
ow can one “measure” the loss of a deified dictator? Do the limits of crying imply the limits
of loss? The affe
ctive-political drama upon the dictator’s death will be interpreted to the
measure it was experienced and enacted by three groups of the socio-politic
al hierarchy: political bureau, common people and class enemy. Dictatorial
regimes have the most self-evident manifestations of music as an attribute
of power, social control and cultural repression. Hence the musical drama w
ithin the political drama help us to understand how death of a leader break
s the ideologically frozen forms of consciousness and the synchronised rhyt
hm of socialist life, how it sheds light on the “unpredictable past” of the
regime and contributes to an essential understanding of dictatorship as
experience.
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