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Made in Poland Patryk Galuszka (University of Lodz, Poland)

Made in Poland By Patryk Galuszka (University of Lodz, Poland)

Summary

Made 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.

Made in Poland Summary

Made in Poland: Studies in Popular Music by Patryk Galuszka (University of Lodz, Poland)

Made 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 Peoples Republic of Poland; Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions; and Music, Identity, and Critique.

About Patryk Galuszka (University of Lodz, Poland)

Patryk Galuszka is an associate professor in the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Lodz. He has published on subjects such as music industries, crowdfunding, and music fandom in the digital age.

Table of Contents

List 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 Peoples 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 Peoples Republic of Poland

ANNA IDZIKOWSKA- CZUBAJ

3 Against the Mainstream: Music and the Polish Alternative Culture of the 1980s

MAREK JEZINSKI

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 UKASZ SONSKI

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 NOZYNSKI

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

Additional information

NPB9780815360131
9780815360131
0815360134
Made in Poland: Studies in Popular Music by Patryk Galuszka (University of Lodz, Poland)
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Taylor & Francis Inc
2019-12-02
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