Dr Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska is a Researcher at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr Mariusz Gradowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw and Lecturer on the postgraduate course ‘Music and Media’ at Collegium Civitas. He also works regularly with Polish Radio 2 and The Frederic Chopin Institute. Dr Grzegorz Piotrowski is Head of the Cultural Studies Department at the University of Gdańsk and lecturer at the Music Academy in Gdańsk. Dr Marlena Wieczorek is a musicologist, cultural manager, and the president of the MEAKULTURA Foundation which is responsible for this project. She is a two-time holder of the MKiDN (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) scholarship. Marlena devised the concept for this book.

• Part I – Music in Motion: ContextsThe History of Music Often Means the History of EmigrantsLife Choices: Causes and Effects of MigrationTowards the Four Corners of the World: Directions of EmigrationMusic in Transit: Currents and StylesDo We Know Them? Does the World Know Them? The Presence of Musical ‘Nomads’ in Poland and AbroadIndependent and True to Themselves: The Migration of Young Polish ComposersThe Paths of Film MusicParticular Existences: Jazz and Popular Music ComposersEnclaves of Young Polish JazzRock JourneysComposing as an AutobiographyWe Keep Wandering: On Existential Migration Part II – Composers’ ProfilesBiographies of 63 Polish émigré composers, with pen-drawn portraits of each (a full list of names can be supplied if required)