„Tak oto ożywamy, tak, tak, tak”. Szkic o Agacie Harz
“This is how we come alive, yes, yes, yes.” A Few Words About Agata Harz

Summary/Abstract: A biographical outline devoted to the urban traditional singer Agata Harz. The text is an attempt to answer the questions: How is it possible that a singer with proper anthropological sensitivity undertakes the performance of traditional songs, in which misogyny and xenophobia are omnipresent? How does she define the songs? What strategies does she adopt towards them? To what extent does she transform them? How does she understand the gesture of performing traditional songs today? And can Agata Harz’s work and practice have a transgressive potential? The text also constitutes a missing element of the history of Polish traditional music circles, and more broadly, of the history of past and present traditional singers.

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