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Ewa Mazierska - Polish Estrada Music, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Polish Estrada Music

Organisation, Stars and Representation

Av Ewa Mazierska

Del i serien Slavonic and East European Music Studies

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Polish estrada music dominated Polish popular music throughout the state socialist period but gained little attention from popular music scholars because it was regarded as being of low quality and politically conformist. Ewa Mazierska carefully examines these assumptions, considering those institutions which catered for the needs of estrada artists and their fans, the presence of estrada in different media and the careers and styles of the leading stars, such as Mieczysław Fogg, Irena Santor, Violetta Villas, Anna German, Jerzy Połomski, Maryla Rodowicz, Zdzisława Sośnicka, Zbigniew Wodecki and Izabela Trojanowska. Mazierska also discusses the memory and legacy of estrada music in the postcommunist period. The book draws on Poland’s cultural and political history and the history of Polish popular music and media, including television and radio. Mazierska engages with concepts such as genre, stardom and authenticity in order to capture the essence of Polish estrada music and to provide a comparison with popular music produced in other countries.
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Ewa Mazierska is Professor of film studies at the School of Journalism, Media and Performance, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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‘In addition to being an impressive piece of scholarship, [Mazierska’s book] stands as a tribute to Polish estrada songs and performers from the mid-1940s to the late 1980s. Far from being a dry scholarly narrative, it vividly evokes an important element of East European communist history—a distinct model of popular culture and entertainment…The book offers fascinating insights into how the music industry operated in a Polish communist context…Mazierska’s contribution is not only to illuminate how the music industry operated under Polish state socialism, but to highlight an important aspect of the socialist experience where entertainment became an important element of the system in the post-Stalinist era…Mazierska’s achievement lies in bringing estrada music and popular culture from the margins into the center of Polish postwar history. Indeed, the genre was a vital part of the daily lives of Polish citizens as it was a constant presence on radio, television, and record players, forming a prominent backdrop to everyday experiences under communism.’Malgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Polish Review

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