Nicholas Tochka

John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band as 'first-person music': notes on the politics of self-expression in rock music since 1970

Nicholas Tochka

Journal article  |  2020  |  POPULAR MUSIC

In late 1970, John Lennon began promoting his first post-Beatles solo album, Plastic Ono Band, which he described as 'first-person..

Gruda, Zef

Nicholas Tochka

Reference Work  |  2020

Book Review: Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania by Shannon Woodcock

Nicholas Tochka

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2019  |  Feminist Review

Editors' Introduction

SK Bridge, N Tochka, A Dunnett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of World Popular Music

Editors' Introduction

SK Bridge, N Tochka

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of World Popular Music

Editors' Introduction

Simone Kruger Bridge, Nicholas Tochka, Raphael Nowak

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF WORLD POPULAR MUSIC

My Racist Kentucky Home

Nicholas Tochka

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

The Battle over “America’s Troubadour”

Audible States

Nicholas Tochka

Book  |  2017

In 'Audible States', Nicholas Tochka traces an aural history of Albania's government through a close examination of the developmen..

Cosmopolitan inscriptions? Mimicry, rap, and rurbanity in post-socialist Albania

N Tochka

Book Chapter  |  2017

On the streets of Tirana, Albania, hip hop issues from pounding car speakers and teen­ agers’ cell phones jangle forth hooks from ..

Singing "with culture': popular musicians and affective labour in state-socialist Albania

Nicholas Tochka

Journal article  |  2017  |  ETHNOMUSICOLOGY FORUM

This article examines how composers, bureaucrats and musicians themselves disciplined the singer’s body in state-socialist Albania..