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My article is based on both ethnographic field research and the fan's many years of experience. It;'s about the 40-year history of two Polish music festivals: Jarocin Rock Festival and Rock on Swamp (Rock na Bagnie) festival. On the one hand I suggest that the countercultural past of punk, rooted in the 1980s, is now being sentimentalized and commercialized. On the other hand, punk becomes an agent of important and surprising social changes in a tiny provincial town. Thanks to this, “the sold out festival” has its reverse in the form of a community-based event.
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This page is a summary of: From ‘commercial sell out’ to community-based event: The paradoxes of Polish punk rock music festivals, Punk & Post Punk, February 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/punk_00102_1.
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