Popular Polish Electronic Music, 1970-2020

Polish Electronic Music 1970-2020 offers a cultural history of popular Polish electronic music, from its beginning in the late 1960/early 1970s till the present day, in the context of Polish economic, social and political history and the history of popular music in this country.

Ewa Mazierska is professor in film studies at the University of Central Lancashire and principal editor of a journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections, including From Self-Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present, Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema: Representing Neighbours on Screen (with Eva Näripea and Lars Kristensen), and Work in Cinema: Labor and Human Condition. Mazierska's work has been translated into almost twenty languages, including French, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Portugese, Estonian, and Serbian.

Introduction: Mapping Popular Electronic Music in Poland; Chapter 1 The 1970s: The Beginnings; Chapter 2 The 1980s: Polish Popular Music Goes Electronic; Chapter 3 Breaking the Iron Curtain; Chapter 4 After 2000: The Age of Abundance and Confusion; Conclusion; Bibliography