Table of Contents

Part I – Music in Motion: Contexts
The History of Music Often Means the History of Emigrants
Life Choices: Causes and Effects of Migration
Towards the Four Corners of the World: Directions of Emigration
Music in Transit: Currents and Styles
Do We Know Them? Does the World Know Them? The Presence of Musical ‘Nomads’ in Poland and Abroad
Independent and True to Themselves: The Migration of Young Polish Composers
The Paths of Film Music
Particular Existences: Jazz and Popular Music Composers
Enclaves of Young Polish Jazz
Rock Journeys
Composing as an Autobiography
We Keep Wandering: On Existential Migration

Part II – Composers’ Profiles
Biographies of 63 Polish émigré composers, with pen-drawn portraits of each (a full list of names can be supplied if required)

About the Author

Dr Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska is a Researcher at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr Mariusz Gradowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw and Lecturer on the postgraduate course ‘Music and Media’ at Collegium Civitas. He also works regularly with Polish Radio 2 and The Frederic Chopin Institute. Dr Grzegorz Piotrowski is Head of the Cultural Studies Department at the University of Gdańsk and lecturer at the Music Academy in Gdańsk. Dr Marlena Wieczorek is a musicologist, cultural manager, and the president of the MEAKULTURA Foundation which is responsible for this project. She is a two-time holder of the MKiDN (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) scholarship. Marlena devised the concept for this book.