In this chapter I discuss the contents and functions of contemporary jokes about IT specialists. The analysis includes accounts circulated orally, in print, and electronically. It also refers to a variety of visual and ...

In this chapter, I assert that in the contemporary culture the role of folklore is partially occupied by tabloids. Based on the analysis of the texts published in two Polish tabloids (“Fact” and “Super Express”) I show ...

At the turn of 19th century there existed in oral and popular literature a group of humorous songs on wandering beggars, who were named dziady. For a long time the performance of these songs was wrongly ascribed dziady ...

In this chapter, I describe one of the most popular genres of religious poetry of verse legend. In the first part of the discussion I make a reconstruction of the three main types of legends considering their thematic ...

In the first part of this chapter I refer to the concept of folklore contained in the works of Józef Burszta and recapitulate an ongoing discussion in Poland on the subject of folklore research paying particular attention ...

In this chapter I analyse Polish folk revival music, and the alternative concepts and terms describing folklore and folk music emerging within it. I wonder about the social and ideological contexts of the development of ...

Polish wandering beggars, commonly called dziady and Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy players are two groups, which were characterized by certain similarities, but at the same time they differed in a significant way. Despite these ...

This chapter provides an analysis of two news songs that tell about the events associated with Toruń. The first – written in Polish – applies to so-called “Toruń Tumult” which was the conflict between Catholics and ...

In this chapter I present a detailed analysis of leaflets containing songs about the end of the world and the final judgment, which in Polish tradition often took on the form of the prophecy of the ancient oracle Sibyl. ...