![]() ![]() Culture was released from the yoke of central planning and the previously dominant social structure, and this resulted in the commercialization and increased visibility of disco polo, a genre whose roots can be found in the music of the interwar period. I would even go so far as to claim that it was one of the most important cultural events of the 1990s. This chapter had witnessed disco polo’s ascent from village discos and informal markets to the biggest concert halls of the Polish capital. Held at the Congress Hall in the Palace of Culture and Science, the Gala may be viewed as the culmination of the first chapter in the story of disco polo 1. The passage above is a quote from backstage at the First Gala of Popular and Street Music on February 29, 1992, by Krzysztof Jaślar, the director of the event. ![]() This is our job and the job of the audience is to attend shows like ours, which we heartily encourage them to. We simply tolerate the tastes of our audience and we do not seek to argue with them. The Masses are Downtown Essentially, we should have called this show “tolerance.” The word itself, however, is reserved for higher purposes. ![]()
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