Introduction

Abstract

The introduction defines “political action” and “solidarity” theoretically, as frameworks for organizing and dispersing the relationship between music and protest. It also introduces the Polish opposition to state socialism, giving an overview of the political agents (activists, critics, citizens, priests, bureaucrats, Party members, journalists) who are the main protagonists of this history and who guide the musics and scenes upon which the book focuses. One cabaret anthem, Jan Pietrzak’s “So That Poland Will Be Poland,” serves as an orientation point. The song’s text, key performances in Warsaw, and use by the US Information Agency for propaganda give insight into national and international perspectives on the Solidarity movement and its historiography from the 1980s into the present.

Narratives of Here and of Elsewhere in Scottish-Jewish Music: Meyer Fomin and Isaac Hirshow

“…Philip Bohlman writes that nineteenth century European constructions of Jewish music saw it "increasingly [become] a music in which the identity of selfness was largely a product of difference"-Jewish specificity expressed in relation to both European romanticism and an increasingly global interface for Jewish musical practice. 62 but continues also to appear as concert repertoire. Hirshow's, on the other hand, was part of a degree portfolio and did not receive its first performance until eight years after his death.…”