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.

• List of Illustrations Preface Series Foreword Introduction: Polish Popular Music and its Research: Filling the Gaps PATRYK GALUSZKAPart 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- MAZUR2 Rock and Politics in the People’s Republic of Poland ANNA IDZIKOWSKA- CZUBAJ3 Against the Mainstream: Music and the Polish Alternative Culture of the 1980s MAREK JEZIŃSKIPart II: Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions 4 Polish Psychedelic Rock: A Game of Appearances MARCIN MICHALAK5 “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 SŁOŃSKI6 Deserters with a Chance of Success: Polish Punks Before and Aft er 1989 1MARTA MARCINIAK7 Microlabels: Th e Modern Popular Culture Niches in Poland TOMASZ MISIAK AND SZYMON NOŻYŃSKI8 Independent from What Exactly? Th e Polish Recording Industry in the 1990s PATRYK GALUSZKA AND KATARZYNA M. WYRZYKOWSKAPart 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 KULIGOWSKI10 Th e Making of Polish Hip- Hop: Music, Nationality, and the Limits of Hegemony ARTUR SZARECKI11 Sandwiches with Cash and the Scent of God: Mister D. and the Post- Transformational Criticism of Polishness KONRAD SIERZPUTOWSKI12 Disco Polo Music: Th e Agency and Modernization of the Polish Province ZIEMOWIT SOCHA13 Polish Music in British Nightclubs: Examining How Nostalgic Longing Brought Disco Polo and Polish Hip- Hop to the United Kingdom KAMILA RYMAJDOCODA14 Polish Popular Music beyond the Borders of Poland EWA MAZIERSKAAFTERWORD15 “Music as the Binder”: A Conversation with Macio Moretti PATRYK GALUSKASelected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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.

• List of Illustrations Preface Series Foreword Introduction: Polish Popular Music and its Research: Filling the Gaps PATRYK GALUSZKAPart 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- MAZUR2 Rock and Politics in the People’s Republic of Poland ANNA IDZIKOWSKA- CZUBAJ3 Against the Mainstream: Music and the Polish Alternative Culture of the 1980s MAREK JEZIŃSKIPart II: Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions 4 Polish Psychedelic Rock: A Game of Appearances MARCIN MICHALAK5 “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 SŁOŃSKI6 Deserters with a Chance of Success: Polish Punks Before and Aft er 1989 1MARTA MARCINIAK7 Microlabels: Th e Modern Popular Culture Niches in Poland TOMASZ MISIAK AND SZYMON NOŻYŃSKI8 Independent from What Exactly? Th e Polish Recording Industry in the 1990s PATRYK GALUSZKA AND KATARZYNA M. WYRZYKOWSKAPart 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 KULIGOWSKI10 Th e Making of Polish Hip- Hop: Music, Nationality, and the Limits of Hegemony ARTUR SZARECKI11 Sandwiches with Cash and the Scent of God: Mister D. and the Post- Transformational Criticism of Polishness KONRAD SIERZPUTOWSKI12 Disco Polo Music: Th e Agency and Modernization of the Polish Province ZIEMOWIT SOCHA13 Polish Music in British Nightclubs: Examining How Nostalgic Longing Brought Disco Polo and Polish Hip- Hop to the United Kingdom KAMILA RYMAJDOCODA14 Polish Popular Music beyond the Borders of Poland EWA MAZIERSKAAFTERWORD15 “Music as the Binder”: A Conversation with Macio Moretti PATRYK GALUSKASelected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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.

• List of Illustrations Preface Series Foreword Introduction: Polish Popular Music and its Research: Filling the Gaps PATRYK GALUSZKAPart 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- MAZUR2 Rock and Politics in the People’s Republic of Poland ANNA IDZIKOWSKA- CZUBAJ3 Against the Mainstream: Music and the Polish Alternative Culture of the 1980s MAREK JEZIŃSKIPart II: Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions 4 Polish Psychedelic Rock: A Game of Appearances MARCIN MICHALAK5 “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 SŁOŃSKI6 Deserters with a Chance of Success: Polish Punks Before and Aft er 1989 1MARTA MARCINIAK7 Microlabels: Th e Modern Popular Culture Niches in Poland TOMASZ MISIAK AND SZYMON NOŻYŃSKI8 Independent from What Exactly? Th e Polish Recording Industry in the 1990s PATRYK GALUSZKA AND KATARZYNA M. WYRZYKOWSKAPart 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 KULIGOWSKI10 Th e Making of Polish Hip- Hop: Music, Nationality, and the Limits of Hegemony ARTUR SZARECKI11 Sandwiches with Cash and the Scent of God: Mister D. and the Post- Transformational Criticism of Polishness KONRAD SIERZPUTOWSKI12 Disco Polo Music: Th e Agency and Modernization of the Polish Province ZIEMOWIT SOCHA13 Polish Music in British Nightclubs: Examining How Nostalgic Longing Brought Disco Polo and Polish Hip- Hop to the United Kingdom KAMILA RYMAJDOCODA14 Polish Popular Music beyond the Borders of Poland EWA MAZIERSKAAFTERWORD15 “Music as the Binder”: A Conversation with Macio Moretti PATRYK GALUSKASelected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index