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This chapter discusses several instances of collaboration between Polish and Yugoslav musicians in the postcommunist period, focusing on those between Goran Bregović and two Polish singers, Kayah and Krzysztof Krawczyk. It looks at the background of this collaboration, pointing to the well developed rock scenes in Yugoslavia and Poland during the state socialist period, the star status Bregović enjoyed in Poland and the appetite for world music Polish audiences acquired in the 1990s. It argues that the collaboration was profitable for both the Yugoslav and Polish sides, resulting in records selling in high numbers and concert tours. However, it also points out that the Yugo-Polish collaboration was a parochial affair, whose success was limited to Poland.
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The author is grateful to Slobodan Karamanic and Marko Zubak for their comments on the draft of this chapter.
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Mazierska, E. (2019). Yugo-Polish: The Uses of Yugoslav Music by Polish Musicians. In: Mazierska, E., Győri, Z. (eds) Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context. Palgrave European Film and Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17034-9_7
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