Broadside Ballads in Poland: Content, Forms, and Research Perspectives

Piotr Grochowski examines broadside ballads published in Poland, focusing on their genres as well as the dominant perspectives and achievements in Polish scholars’ research. At the same time, he presents the most typical features, forms, and trends in the development of Polish broadside ballad research. His study covers especially the decline of Polish broadside ballads as mass-marketed artefacts, which can be traced to the turn of the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries.