How music found a way through Albania's isolation
But it was rock music that bore the real brunt of Hoxha’s prohibitions, and the flowering of Albanian-language rock took place in Kosovo rather than the country’s own capital. In a situation where beards and long hair were banned, even opportunities for sartorial signs of countercultural thought were vanishingly rare, but Tirana’s youth would not be discouraged and defied official proscriptions for decades before they were finally lifted in the 1990s. The liqeni ('lake') bands were the nucleus from which Albanian rock later grew, so named for their illegal gatherings at the artificial ...
Source: theneweuropean.co.uk