“There are already three hundred thousand of us:” A self-referential look at fans and performers in Polish big-beat songs from the 1960s and early 1970s
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Patryk Mamczur
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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. (...)