W cieniu czy na piedestale? DJ w kulturze „free tekno” a dyskurs muzyki „ludowej”

Abstract

Blurring of the distinction between performers and audience is one of the characteristics of musical worlds dominated by “folk” music discourse. The rave movement originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was described as “new folk music” due to the practice of collective dance, and the ideology of equality. Tomasz Szlendak’s research on the phenomenon of “technomania”, which was conducted in the 1990s, shows that these ideological postulates were not always implemented. The form and the course of a “technoparty” were often influenced by the music club’s rules and regulations. The so-called “free tekno” is a contemporary music scene that operates outside the club context and originates in the early rave. A quantitative analysis of one hundred videos on the youtube.com website, and a participant observation carried out between 2013 and 2017 at 13 “free tekno” events in Poland suggests that outside the clubs, the ideological postulates of the “folk” musical discourse are realised to a greater extent than at “technoparites” described by Szlendak.