Polish Music 1950-1960

With the end of the war, Poland was under occupation by Russia.
Socialist vision of the world imposed by the Russians produced a Polish song subordinated by a propogney of victory and socialist friendship. The main theme was the work of workers and glory of work. It was quite understandable, thanks to this indoctrination destroyed and robbed the Polish war gradually without supporting measures to be carried out with rubble and she shared her welfare with her Russian liberator. The Capital of Poland Warsaw became a symbol of reconstruction, which Germany with a typical german hatred almost razed to the ground.

There were songs such as:
Red bus (1952) – Kazimierz Winkler & Władysław Szpilman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXy-oZbZmik

Warsaw Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDfcANo8r3Q&list=PLk33wx63HtQc314hyXfQwoZA35IdiC-Ag&index=1

There were still personal radio receivers, so this type of song was played publicly from megaphone. The songs were simple and grabbed the heart. Everyone knew them and she was singing on any occasion.

After the awaited death of Stalin (1953) the world breathed a sigh of relief. The absence of the tyrant weakened the socialist realist doctrine. These times were called the thaw. People from slave labor camps from the Western memets and the Allied front began to return to rebuilt Poland. She had no death in Poland anymore for being on the other side of the front.

Together with the newcomers, came the knowledge about the values of Western culture and in this music called Jazz. Listening and playing jazz was forbidden in Poland, which is why this kind of musical culture quickly strengthened as an underground counter-culture. Jazz boards were smuggling like a weapon, and the first songs were created in a strongly camouflaged musical interpretation cheating censorship.

At the same time, public music changed its direction from ideological to custom. A lot of songs made for love feelings were created. The first stars of Polish music were born. One of them was Natasza Zylska, actually Natasha Zygelman of Jewish origin, who was protected in hiding from death in Holocus.

Natasza Zylska – Chestnuts (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me1-8p6TegY

They was not forgotten to show musical Poland in the West and other countries. Not only classical and choral music has become a good material but also folk in the form of songs for Feasting Polish countryside. One typically export teams was the Society and Dance of Mazowsze (Mazovia) founded by Tadeusz Sygetynski (composer) and Mira Ziminska (singer). The band sang the songs also a regional and old Polish folk dialect. Mazowsze squeezed tears of Poles living in the US who knew that they would never come back to Poland. (Brux)