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This paper deals with the issue of brass bands’ contests in Poland and is analysed using both the diachronic and systematic approaches. The sources for this inquiry are the international literature relating to the working class contest phenomena and the outcome of my ethnomusicological field research conducted in 2001–2005 in the Mazovia region (Central Poland). I briefly examine the history of contests...
The losses and destruction suffered by Polish science, culture and art during the Second World War also affected the pre-war phonographic collections, among them traditional music recordings collected by organisations formed during the inter-war period. The work started by Professor Lucjan Kamienski, who initiated the systematic phonographic documentation of music folklore in Poland and founded the...
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