The Connections between Music Culture and Film Culture
The Connections between Music Culture and Film Culture

Summary/Abstract: The subject of reflection is the place and function of musicin film, considering the political factors that determinedthe situation in Polish culture after World War II. In her his-torical outline, the author distinguishes three periods. Thefirst is 1945-1949, when, after years of occupation, artistssought to regain contact with the broader audience, withtheatre and film playing a significant role in the process.This tendency was in line with the political postulate of artfor the masses, but relative formal freedom was preserved.The second period spans the years 1950-1954, when theimplementation of the doctrine of socialist realism began,announced at the Conference of Composers and MusicCritics in Łagów Lubuski in August 1949. In practice, thismeant a return to the musical traditions of the 19th centu-ry, with particular emphasis on folkloric inspirations, alsoreflected in film music. The last part of the article concernsthe period 1955-1964: a time of relative artistic freedom anda return to experimental and modern music, associated,among other things, with the development and improve-ment of recording techniques. (Non-reviewed material;originally published in Kwartalnik Filmowy 1964, no. 53--54, pp. 72-85).

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