Kasetat e Vitit Ri (New Year's Eve Cassettes) — Popular Culture and Diaspora Consciousness

Before streaming, before downloads, there were cassettes. Kasetat e Vitit Ri — New Year's Eve cassettes — were a staple of Kosovar-Albanian diaspora households across Europe and beyond. This episode traces their history, their cultural significance for the diaspora, and what they tell us about how diaspora communities maintained connection to home through popular culture.