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Popular music and society by Patryk Mamczur
Prace Historyczne, 2019
The author aims to portray the Great African-American Migration by showing the everyday life of t... more The author aims to portray the Great African-American Migration by showing the everyday life of the migrants. Starting from presenting the different ways of migrating North, he later describes conditions in which the migrants lived in the Northern cities, relationships with their non-Black neighbours and with the so-called Old Settlers (meaning African Americans who had lived in the North before the Great Migration), their economic struggle, ways of overcoming the problems, as well as the distinctive culture which the migrants eventually developed, and the ferment which these cultural changes created in the whole American society. The narration is based mostly on the oral histories collected from numerous Northern cities: Albany (New York), Chicago (Illinois), Cincinnati (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio), Detroit (Michigan), Milwaukee (Wisconsin) and New York (New York).
Polish big beat by Patryk Mamczur
Forum Poetyki, 2022
The author focuses on Polish big-beat music from the 1960s and early 1970s. He analyzes the lyric... more The author focuses on Polish big-beat music from the 1960s and early 1970s. He analyzes the lyrics of selected songs from that period, pointing to their self-referential nature and explaining how big beat performers described their fans, themselves, and teenage music in their songs. Songs by both popular and less known local bands are analyzed. The analysis functions in a broader social and political context, and the study of lyrics is further supplemented with quotations from the contemporary press and statements by politicians, journalists, and managers. The author shows that the self-referentiality present in the lyrics of big-beat songs proves that Polish artists in the 1960s and early 1970s were aware of their lyrical and musical strategies.
Forum Poetyki, 2022
Autor skupia się na polskiej muzyce bigbeatowej z lat 60. i początku lat 70. XX wieku. Analizując... more Autor skupia się na polskiej muzyce bigbeatowej z lat 60. i początku lat 70. XX wieku. Analizując teksty wybranych utworów z tego okresu, wskazuje na występujący w nich autotematyzm – prezentuje różne sposoby, na jakie wykonawcy bigbeatowi wypowiadali się w piosenkach o swoich słuchaczach, o samych sobie i o muzyce młodzieżowej jako zjawisku. Wykorzystuje przy tym zarówno utwory popularnych zespołów, jak i mniej znanych, lokalnych grup. Rozważania umieszczone są w szerszym kontekście społecznym i politycznym, a źródła muzyczne uzupełniono cytatami z ówczesnej prasy, wypowiedziami polityków oraz organizatorów życia kulturalnego. Autor wykazuje, że autotematyzm obecny w tekstach piosenek bigbeatowych świadczy o sporej samoświadomości polskich artystów w omawianym okresie.
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2021
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2020
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2018
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2017
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2016
Methodology of popular music studies by Patryk Mamczur
MUTE: Muzyka/Uniwersytet/Technologia/Emocje. Studia nad muzyką popularną, 2017
The paper presents the ongoing tradition of comparing popular music to poetry, discusses why such... more The paper presents the ongoing tradition of comparing popular music to poetry, discusses why such a comparison is incorrect and why analysing particular songs in the same way as poems may produce false or incomplete results in popular music studies. Analysing the deliberations of Matthew Arnold, Frank Raymond Leavis and Theodor Adorno, the paper explains why popular and mass culture, for many decades, has been considered a lower form of art and how it eventually led to treating extraordinary popular songs, e.g. the music of Bob Dylan, as poetry. Then the problem is discussed from the methodological point of view and a number of reasons for not analysing songs as poems is presented. According to the author, such an approach ignores the intentional character of songs – which should be performed and listened to as a whole, without separating words from music – and may result in ignoring aspects like pronunciation, sound and rhythm of particular phrases, sometimes leading to misinterpretation of the whole song.
Kwartalnik młodych muzykologów UJ, 2016
The article presents the possible input of musicologists in terms of popular music studies. It de... more The article presents the possible input of musicologists in terms of popular music studies. It describes basic differences between rock and classical music, being still in the centre of attention of traditional musicology, and underlines the necessity of analysing musical recordings instead of relying on score music. New terminology is proposed – both original and based on Western scholars’ experiences – especially relating to formal structure. The author also analyses different approaches to rhythmics (advocating that scholar himself needs to divide a song into bars), harmonics and melodics (presenting popular models), and instrumentation (underlining the importance of sound processing methods).
Prace Historyczne, 2019
The author aims to portray the Great African-American Migration by showing the everyday life of t... more The author aims to portray the Great African-American Migration by showing the everyday life of the migrants. Starting from presenting the different ways of migrating North, he later describes conditions in which the migrants lived in the Northern cities, relationships with their non-Black neighbours and with the so-called Old Settlers (meaning African Americans who had lived in the North before the Great Migration), their economic struggle, ways of overcoming the problems, as well as the distinctive culture which the migrants eventually developed, and the ferment which these cultural changes created in the whole American society. The narration is based mostly on the oral histories collected from numerous Northern cities: Albany (New York), Chicago (Illinois), Cincinnati (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio), Detroit (Michigan), Milwaukee (Wisconsin) and New York (New York).
Forum Poetyki, 2022
The author focuses on Polish big-beat music from the 1960s and early 1970s. He analyzes the lyric... more The author focuses on Polish big-beat music from the 1960s and early 1970s. He analyzes the lyrics of selected songs from that period, pointing to their self-referential nature and explaining how big beat performers described their fans, themselves, and teenage music in their songs. Songs by both popular and less known local bands are analyzed. The analysis functions in a broader social and political context, and the study of lyrics is further supplemented with quotations from the contemporary press and statements by politicians, journalists, and managers. The author shows that the self-referentiality present in the lyrics of big-beat songs proves that Polish artists in the 1960s and early 1970s were aware of their lyrical and musical strategies.
Forum Poetyki, 2022
Autor skupia się na polskiej muzyce bigbeatowej z lat 60. i początku lat 70. XX wieku. Analizując... more Autor skupia się na polskiej muzyce bigbeatowej z lat 60. i początku lat 70. XX wieku. Analizując teksty wybranych utworów z tego okresu, wskazuje na występujący w nich autotematyzm – prezentuje różne sposoby, na jakie wykonawcy bigbeatowi wypowiadali się w piosenkach o swoich słuchaczach, o samych sobie i o muzyce młodzieżowej jako zjawisku. Wykorzystuje przy tym zarówno utwory popularnych zespołów, jak i mniej znanych, lokalnych grup. Rozważania umieszczone są w szerszym kontekście społecznym i politycznym, a źródła muzyczne uzupełniono cytatami z ówczesnej prasy, wypowiedziami polityków oraz organizatorów życia kulturalnego. Autor wykazuje, że autotematyzm obecny w tekstach piosenek bigbeatowych świadczy o sporej samoświadomości polskich artystów w omawianym okresie.
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2021
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2020
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2018
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2017
Piosenka. Rocznik kulturalny, 2016
MUTE: Muzyka/Uniwersytet/Technologia/Emocje. Studia nad muzyką popularną, 2017
The paper presents the ongoing tradition of comparing popular music to poetry, discusses why such... more The paper presents the ongoing tradition of comparing popular music to poetry, discusses why such a comparison is incorrect and why analysing particular songs in the same way as poems may produce false or incomplete results in popular music studies. Analysing the deliberations of Matthew Arnold, Frank Raymond Leavis and Theodor Adorno, the paper explains why popular and mass culture, for many decades, has been considered a lower form of art and how it eventually led to treating extraordinary popular songs, e.g. the music of Bob Dylan, as poetry. Then the problem is discussed from the methodological point of view and a number of reasons for not analysing songs as poems is presented. According to the author, such an approach ignores the intentional character of songs – which should be performed and listened to as a whole, without separating words from music – and may result in ignoring aspects like pronunciation, sound and rhythm of particular phrases, sometimes leading to misinterpretation of the whole song.
Kwartalnik młodych muzykologów UJ, 2016
The article presents the possible input of musicologists in terms of popular music studies. It de... more The article presents the possible input of musicologists in terms of popular music studies. It describes basic differences between rock and classical music, being still in the centre of attention of traditional musicology, and underlines the necessity of analysing musical recordings instead of relying on score music. New terminology is proposed – both original and based on Western scholars’ experiences – especially relating to formal structure. The author also analyses different approaches to rhythmics (advocating that scholar himself needs to divide a song into bars), harmonics and melodics (presenting popular models), and instrumentation (underlining the importance of sound processing methods).