Jazz in Poland

Igor Pietraszewski

ISBN 10: 3631643195 / ISBN 13: 9783631643198

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jan 2014, 2014

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Neuware -This book studies the different roles that jazz played in Poland in the course of the 20 century, from its implementation in the 1920s, through World War II to the Third Polish Republic. The author, sociologist and jazz musician, depicts how jazz was forbidden under Stalin, accepted and even supported in the Polish People¿s Republic and then welcomed in the open market of the Third Republic. The discussion of jazz in this work covers several levels: political, symbolic, cultural, and economic. The main point of the presented analysis are changes within jazz music itself, within the community of jazz musicians and relations between the field of jazz and the field of politics. 158 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Jazz in Poland
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jan 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631643195
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631643198
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 153 H x 14 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 153 millimètres de hauteur par 14 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 325 grammes

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Synopsis

This book studies the different roles that jazz played in Poland in the course of the 20th century, from its implementation in the 1920s, through World War II to the Third Polish Republic. The author, sociologist and jazz musician, depicts how jazz was forbidden under Stalin, accepted and even supported in the Polish People's Republic and then welcomed in the open market of the Third Republic. The discussion of jazz in this work covers several levels : political, symbolic, cultural, and economic. The main point of the presented analysis are changes within jazz music itself, within the community of jazz musicians and relations between the field of jazz and the field of politics.

À propos de l?auteur

Igor Pietraszewski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Wroc ? aw (Poland). His main research interest is the sociology of culture, art, music and memory. He is also a saxophonist, a member of the Polish Jazz Association and of the Artistic Board of the Jazz on the Odra Festival.