Jazz in Poland

Igor Pietraszewski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Wrocław (Poland). His main research interest is the sociology of culture, art, music and memory. He is also a saxophonist, a member of the Polish Jazz Association and of the Artistic Board of the Jazz on the Odra Festival.

• Contents: Jazz and Politics – Sociology of Art – Sociology of Music – Art and Politics – Jazz in Communist Systems – Art and Communism – Art in post-Communism.

«Igor Pietraszewski […] has written a concise and valuable history of jazz in Poland from the interwar period to the present.»(David G. Tompkins, Slavic Review, vol.74, no.4 2015)«The author presents a balanced picture of an important fragment of Polish history which is free of superficial interpretations and underpinned by his insightful understanding.»(Karol Modzelewski, Professor Emeritus, University of Warsaw)«Igor Pietraszewski’s book is a valuable study of one of the most important and interesting art forms practiced in 20th-century Poland: jazz.»(Jan Kubik, Professor and Chair at the Department of Political Science, Rutgers University)