Rock i polityka w PRL-u. Historia trudnej znajomości

The combination of rock music and the regime policy of the Polish People's Republic is certainly a high-risk relationship and it can lead us to many different conclusions. Not obviously positive and desirable, but not only negative. This is specific nature of life in the Polish People's Republic: multi-dimensional and, therefore, often paradoxical and incomprehensible. Relations between rock and politics can be presented in at least three dimensions. First - it is important to consider how state policy affects the rock music, secondly - whether the rock also affect state policy, and thirdly – whether politics is present in the rock art as a subject, theme, and an object of interest. Most thoroughly was analyzed the first dimension: how the policy of the regime affected the rock music. State policy developed youth culture. On the other hand, we can observe many signs of spontaneous culture created by the youth. History of bigbeat in Polish People's Republic is a story of a specific game between the creators and the official cultural policy of the state. The rock music in Polish People's Republic occasionally was political. The texts of rock songs were highly politicized in the eighties, when rock musicians announced that: "no one believes politicians". Rock music in the eighties, especially in the state of war, in 1981-82, was a symbolic political protest.