Folk Music
Though less dynamic than some of its eastern European neighbours, Polish folk music nevertheless plays a noteworthy role in national cultural life. Traditional folk comes in (at least) two varieties: a bland, sanitized version promoted by successive communist governments and still peddled, with varying degrees of success, principally for foreign consumption: and a rootsier, rural vein of genuine and vibrant folk culture, which you chiefly find among the country's minorities and in the southern and eastern parts of the country. Thanks in part to Chopin, who was profoundly influenced by the music of his native Mazovia (Mazowsze), Mazovian folk music is probably the best known in the country, traditional forms like the mazurka and polonaise offering a rich vein of tuneful melodies and vibrant dance rhythms. Other regions with strong traditional folk music cultures include Silesia , the Tatras , whose music-loving gorale (highlanders) have developed a rousing polyphonically inclined song tradition over the centuries, and the Lemks of the Beskid Niski , whose music bears a tangled imprint of Ukrainian, Slovak and Hungarian influences. Among the notable showcases for Polish folk music of all descriptions are the triennial Festival of Polonia Music and Dance in Rzeszow , which draws a welter of emigracja ensembles from the worldwide Polish diaspora, and the annual summer folk festival bash in Kazimierz Dolny . In the north of the country along the Baltic coast the popularity of sea shanties is a surprising discovery, with annual festivals during the summer in many towns.
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