1st Edition

Made in Poland Studies in Popular Music

Edited By Patryk Galuszka Copyright 2020
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 People’s Republic of Poland; Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions; and Music, Identity, and Critique.

    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 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

    Biography

    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.