Negotiating national identity against right-wing nationalism: sonic (re)narrations in Poland

Authors

  • Joanna Zienkiewicz University of Groningen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2024)v14i2.5en

Keywords:

National Identity, (Re)narration, Nationalism, Populism, Affect, Withdrawal

Abstract

This article discusses a set of approaches to national identity that subverted dominant nationalist discourse in Poland during the rule of Law and Justice (2015–2023). Based on a sonic, lyrical, and visual analysis of three popular music case studies, it explores how the populist-enabled mainstreaming of “turbopatriotism” (Napiórkowski 2019) has been criticized and what alternative visions of Polishness have been put forward. I argue that cultural narrations of Polishness as [1] plural, diverse, and cosmopolitan, [2] peripheral, flawed, and complicated, and [3] bygone and mourned, all have unique affective strengths for the continued negotiations of collectivity in post-communist and populist contexts.

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Published

06-11-2024