


An Ethnography of Memory of the People’s Republic of Poland Wojciech Burszta, Anna Jawor, Mirosław Pęczak, Michał Rauszer, Piotr Zańko Everyday Culture in Postwar Poland 1956–1989 Translated by Jędrzej Burszta
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Opis
Cultural participation was seen as a source of prestige, and the requirement of personal development, of becoming a cultured person, gained popularity and became almost an inherent element of the model of social advancement. The intelligentsia was expected to elevate the cultural level of the country, primarily by introducing the less educated parts of society to the national culture. […]
In our study of socialist Poland we wanted to focus primarily on the memories of everyday life of those who lived in that period. Our perspective refers therefore not to the experience of a witness of history, understood as a sequence of significant events, but rather simply to the everyday life of people who lived in this historical epoch. The aim of the study is to show not the functioning of the People’s Republic of Poland but how individual sought to “find themselves within it,” especially ways of dealing with problems, of living and experiencing. That is why we are not concentrating on studying the cultural memory of socialist Poland; rather, we are attempting to refer to the communicative memory of that period. A memory collected in the form of personal and biographical accounts, one analogous to narrative memory.
Rok wydania: 2021
Wydanie pierwsze
Format 130 x 208 mm
Liczba stron: 208
Oprawa broszurowa
ISBN 978-83-66056-84-8
e-ISBN 978-83-66056-85-5
Cena katalogowa 19,50
Projekt okładki i stron tytułowych Ireneusz Sakowski
Table of Contents
7 Introduction
19 Model of a Cultured Person
23 Savoir Vivre
31 Appearance and Table Manners
35 Ms. Pharmacist, Mr. Engineer
39 A Class in Itself
43 In the Beginning Was the Word
49 Books and Theater
52 Cultural Participation—Continued
57 Idealism
60 What Was Valued, What Was Despised: Hierarchy of
Culture
63 Atlas of Culture
68 High and Low Culture
78 The Audiences: Recipients of Culture
84 Folklorism
90 Propaganda and the Alternative
96 Youth and Alternative Culture
122 Free Time or Times of Freedom?
124 Does Free Time Exist?
129 Dimensions of Leisure
135 Holidays and (Working) Class
138 Leisure, Additional Resources and Gender
140 Leisure of Children and Youths
143 Free and Non-Free Time
145 Culinary Culture
150 Restaurants
152 Milk Bars and Canteens
155 Cooking at Home
156 Food Provisioning
161 Memory, Things, Everyday Life
164 Two Types of Nostalgia for Things
167 From Nostalgia to DIY
170 Absence and DIY
172 Objects in a Network
176 Circulations of Things and Their Impact on Independent Culture
177 Things and Status
181 Things and Memory of Everyday Life
183 Conclusion: Remembering the People’s Republic of Poland
189 References
197 Index
Introduction
(excerpts)
The main aim of this book is to offer a reconstruction and an interpretation of popular culture of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) as it exists in the generational and individual memories of its participants and recipients. The interviewees of our study were people who experienced the period between 1956 and 1989 as adults (18+ years old). […]
A new normative model began to be adopted after 1956, which stated that the socialist man should be a cultured man. Cultural participation was seen as a source of prestige, and the requirement of personal development, of becoming a cultured person, gained popularity and became almost an inherent element of the model of social advancement.⁸ The intelligentsia
was expected to elevate the cultural level of the country, primarily by introducing the less educated parts of society to the national culture. […]
An intellectual in socialist Poland was expected to be curious about the cultural, artistic and mental life of the West. Limits on travel to foreign countries resulted in a responsibility to share observations and experiences after returning to the country with as many people as possible. […]
Another crucial factor in the formation of popular culture was the migration from rural areas
to cities, connected with the processes of adopting urban models of leisure, which got shaped by and at the same time influenced the state-sanctioned popular culture. […]
In our study of socialist Poland we wanted to focus primarily on the memories of everyday life of those who lived in that period. Our perspective refers therefore not to the experience
of a witness of history, understood as a sequence of significant events, but rather simply to the everyday life of people who lived in this historical epoch. The aim of the study is to show not the functioning of the People’s Republic of Poland but how individual sought to “find themselves within it,” especially ways of dealing with problems, of living and experiencing. That is why we are not concentrating on studying the cultural memory of socialist Poland; rather, we are attempting to refer to the communicative memory of that period. A memory collected in the form of personal and biographical accounts, one analogous to narrative memory.
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