Description
Book SynopsisMade in Poland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Polish popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Polish music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Poland and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Poland, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Popular Music in the Peopleâs Republic of Poland; Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions; and Music, Identity, and Critique.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Series Foreword
Introduction: Polish Popular Music and its Research: Filling the Gaps
PATRYK GALUSZKA
Part I: Born in the PRL: Popular Music in the People’s Republic of Poland
1 No Country for Sheer Entertainment: Cultural Politics of Socialist Poland, its Conceptual Scheme, and Vision of Popular Music
RENATA PASTERNAK- MAZUR
2 Rock and Politics in the People’s Republic of Poland
ANNA IDZIKOWSKA- CZUBAJ
3 Against the Mainstream: Music and the Polish Alternative Culture of the 1980s
MAREK JEZIŃSKI
Part II: Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions
4 Polish Psychedelic Rock: A Game of Appearances
MARCIN MICHALAK
5 “Lipstick on the Glass”: A Cultural Studies Perspective on the Female Artists of the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole
MATEUSZ TORZECKI AND ŁUKASZ SŁOŃSKI
6 Deserters with a Chance of Success: Polish Punks Before and Aft er 1989 1
MARTA MARCINIAK
7 Microlabels: Th e Modern Popular Culture Niches in Poland
TOMASZ MISIAK AND SZYMON NOŻYŃSKI
8 Independent from What Exactly? Th e Polish Recording Industry in the 1990s
PATRYK GALUSZKA AND KATARZYNA M. WYRZYKOWSKA
Part III: Polishness and its Discontents: Music, Identity, and Critique
9 Between Artistic Freedom and National Pride: Th e Dance House Movement and Folk Music in Poland
WALDEMAR KULIGOWSKI
10 Th e Making of Polish Hip- Hop: Music, Nationality, and the Limits of Hegemony
ARTUR SZARECKI
11 Sandwiches with Cash and the Scent of God: Mister D. and the Post- Transformational Criticism of Polishness
KONRAD SIERZPUTOWSKI
12 Disco Polo Music: Th e Agency and Modernization of the Polish Province
ZIEMOWIT SOCHA
13 Polish Music in British Nightclubs: Examining How Nostalgic Longing Brought Disco Polo and Polish Hip- Hop to the United Kingdom
KAMILA RYMAJDO
CODA
14 Polish Popular Music beyond the Borders of Poland
EWA MAZIERSKA
AFTERWORD
15 “Music as the Binder”: A Conversation with Macio Moretti
PATRYK GALUSKA
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
