Modernizing Localities in Poland
A Never-Ending Transformation
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2024
158 pages
978-1-6669-5046-5 (ISBN)
Description
Modernizing Localities in Poland: A Never-ending Transformation investigates modern cultural traditions and their transformations in Poland. Designed as a series of case studies analyzing music festivals, city parades, rural rituals, and contemporary bachelorette parties, this book creates a rich panorama of Poland's cultural, social, and political transformations. The catalysts for these transformations are highway drivers, music festival and street parade participants, local activists and artists, reenactors of history and tradition. Thanks to their insight, the author describes local events and communities from the inside, focusing on the values and motivations that prompted their participation in Poland's cultural traditions.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-5046-5 (9781666950465)
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08/2024
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Person
Waldemar Kuligowski is professor at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernizing Localities in Poland: A Never-ending Transformation
Chapter 1: State Ideologies and Community Values: Post-war Poland in the Mirror of Festivals
Chapter 2: From "Commercial Sellout" to Community-based Event: The Paradoxes of Polish Punk Rock Music Festivals
Chapter 3: Punk Rock Beyond the Center: Critical Geography of Art
Chapter 4: Creating a Public Sphere Through a Celebration: The Case of the St. Martin's Parade
Chapter 5: Laughter, Fear, and Rural Feminization: Contemporary Carnival Shrovetide in the Polish Countryside
Chapter 6: A Wreath from a Sex Shop: Bachelorette Parties
Chapter 7: Peasanthood as Long-term Structure
Chapter 8: "How Poland Entered Europe:" The Motorway as a Space of Neoliberalism
Bibliography
About the Author
Introduction: Modernizing Localities in Poland: A Never-ending Transformation
Chapter 1: State Ideologies and Community Values: Post-war Poland in the Mirror of Festivals
Chapter 2: From "Commercial Sellout" to Community-based Event: The Paradoxes of Polish Punk Rock Music Festivals
Chapter 3: Punk Rock Beyond the Center: Critical Geography of Art
Chapter 4: Creating a Public Sphere Through a Celebration: The Case of the St. Martin's Parade
Chapter 5: Laughter, Fear, and Rural Feminization: Contemporary Carnival Shrovetide in the Polish Countryside
Chapter 6: A Wreath from a Sex Shop: Bachelorette Parties
Chapter 7: Peasanthood as Long-term Structure
Chapter 8: "How Poland Entered Europe:" The Motorway as a Space of Neoliberalism
Bibliography
About the Author
