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Niemen Enigmatic 33 1/3 Global 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and more. 33 1/3 Japan Series Editor: Noriko Manabe Spanning a range of artists and genres – from the 1970s rock of Happy End to technopop band Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Shibuya- kei of Cornelius, classic anime series Cowboy Bebop, J-Pop/EDM hybrid Perfume, and vocaloid star Hatsune Miku – 33 1/3 Japan is a series devoted to in-depth examination of Japanese popular music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Published Titles: Supercell’s Supercell by Keisuke Yamada Yoko Kanno’s Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack by Rose Bridges Perfume’s Game by Patrick St. Michel Cornelius’s Fantasma by Martin Roberts Joe Hisaishi’s My Neighbor Totoro: Soundtrack by Kunio Hara Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour by Brooke McCorkle Nenes’ Koza Dabasa by Henry Johnson Forthcoming Titles: Yuming’s The 14th Moon by Lasse Lehtonen Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yellow Magic Orchestra by Toshiyuki Ohwada Kohaku utagassen: The Red and White Song Contest by Shelley Brunt 33 1/3 Brazil Series Editor: Jason Stanyek Covering the genres of samba, tropicália, rock, hip-hop, forró, bossa nova, heavy metal and funk, among others, 33 1/3 Brazil is a series devoted to in-depth examination of the most important Brazilian albums of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Published Titles: Caetano Veloso’s A Foreign Sound by Barbara Browning Tim Maia’s Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2 by Allen Thayer João Gilberto and Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto by Brian McCann Gilberto Gil’s Refazenda by Marc A. Hertzman Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro by Mila Burns Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges’s The Corner Club by Jonathon Grasse Racionais MCs’ Sobrevivendo no Inferno by Derek Pardue Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades by Daniel B. Sharp Forthcoming titles: Jorge Ben Jor’s África Brasil by Frederick J. Moehn Chico Buarque’s Chico Buarque by Charles A. Perrone 33 1/3 Europe Series Editor: Fabian Holt Spanning a range of artists and genres, 33 1/3 Europe offers engaging accounts of popular and culturally significant albums of Continental Europe and the North Atlantic from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Published Titles: Darkthrone’s A Blaze in the Northern Sky by Ross Hagen Ivo Papazov’s Balkanology by Carol Silverman Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee by Philip V. Bohlman Modeselektor’s Happy Birthday! by Sean Nye Mercyful Fate’s Don’t Break the Oath by Henrik Marstal Bea Playa’s I’ll Be Your Plaything by Anna Szemere and András Rónai Various Artists’ DJs do Guetto by Richard Elliott Czesław Niemen’s Niemen Enigmatic by Ewa Mazierska and Mariusz Gradowski Forthcoming Titles: Los Rodriguez’s Sin Documentos by Fernán del Val and Héctor Fouce Massada’s Astaganaga by Lutgard Mutsaers Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano’s Bella Ciao by Jacopo Tomatis Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia by Lilla Ellen Gray Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon by Nicholas Tochka Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi by Maria Sonevytsky Édith Piaf’s Recital 1961 by David Looseley Iannis Xenakis’ Persepolis by Aram Yardumian Niemen Enigmatic Mariusz Gradowski and Ewa Mazierska Series Editor: Fabian Holt BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2022 Copyright © Mariusz Gradowski and Ewa Mazierska, 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Gradowski, Mariusz, author. | Mazierska, Ewa, author. Title: Czeslaw Niemen’s Niemen enigmatic / Mariusz Gradowski and Ewa Mazierska. Description: New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. | Series: 33 1/3 Europe | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Examines the remarkable history and significance of the album Niemen Enigmatic, released in Poland in 1970 by Polish musician Czeslaw Niemen in its national and international contexts”–Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021042209 (print) | LCCN 2021042210 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501372674 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501372667 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501372681 (epub) | ISBN 9781501372698 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501372704 (ebook other) Subjects: LCSH: Niemen, Czesław. Niemen enigmatic. | Niemen, Czesław–Criticism and interpretation. | Rock music–Poland–1961-1970– History and criticism. | Popular music–Poland–History and criticism. Classification: LCC ML420.N674 C94 2022 (print) | LCC ML420.N674 (ebook) | DDC 782.42166092–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042209 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042210 ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-7267-4 PB: 978-1-5013-7266-7 ePDF: 978-1-5013-7269-8 eBook: 978-1-5013-7268-1 Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India Series: 33 1/3 Europe To find out more about our authors and books visit www .bloomsbury .com and sign up for our newsletters. Contents List of tables viii Introduction 1 1 From an ordinary singer to a prophet: The life and career of Czesław Niemen 7 2 From the poem to Poems: Inspiration, conception and production of Niemen Enigmatic 37 3 Solving the enigma: What Niemen Enigmatic is about? 65 4 Like old wine: Remembering Niemen Enigmatic 107 Bibliography 135 Index 140 Tables 1 Formal Diagram of ‘Rhapsody’ after Piotr Chlebowski 80 2 Formal Diagram of ‘Rhapsody’ by Gradowski and Mazierska 82 3 Formal Diagram of ‘One Heart’ by Gradowski and Mazierska 92 4 Formal Diagram of ‘Flowers of My Country’ by Gradowski and Mazierska 98 5 Formal Diagram of ‘Keep Talking to Me’ by Gradowski and Mazierska 102 Introduction When preparing to write the introduction to this book, we looked at other books published for the series 331/3. They typically include a description of a personal encounter of the author with the artist and the record, either thanks to meeting his or her in person, or remembering the moment when they saw them in a television show or listened to his or her record. By contrast, we were not able to identify such moments of personal encounter with Niemen or the record which we will analyse in the subsequent chapters. For us, however, this is not a sign that Niemen matters less for us than, say, David Bowie or Led Zeppelin for the authors who wrote about their iconic records, but that Niemen’s music has been a soundtrack to our lives. That said, each of the two authors remembers Niemen differently. For Ewa Mazierska, who was born in 1964, Niemen’s music stood for the music of ‘young people’. This was music which her parents and grandmother avoided, on account of its noisiness, being rebellious and provocative, in contrast to estrada music, which came across as harmonious and conformist. Mazierska also bore witness to Niemen’s transformation from the idol of a young generation to an avant-garde composer and an important cultural figure, frequently compared to Romantic poets, whose poetry he adopted in his works, such as Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and, most importantly, Cyprian
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