Badanie Jarocina: 1983–1984
Researching Jarocin: 1983–1984

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the underlying assumptions, manner of conducting, and results of sociological surveys carried out in the 1980s among the audience of the Jarocin rock music festival. The author, who was a member of the research group, reconstructs the state of knowledge then on subcultures and youth culture. He places the phenomenon of the festival within its social, cultural, political and musical context, sketching out a picture of the birth of Polish alternative music. Discussing in detail the survey results from the 1980s, he recalls the importance of music, which functioned in that decade as one of the cornerstones of youth identification and the era’s normative systems.

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