Tuwim and the alternative. About contemporary musical adaptations of Skamandrite’s poetry

Abstract

The article deals with the presence and popularity of poetry in the popular circuit and especially in the alternative music scene. Since 1970, when Czesław Niemen and Marek Grechuta presented a new way of interpreting the poetry of the great classics of literature, there has not been as much interest in poetry in the music circulation as there has been on the Polish scene since 2000. Par-ticularly the poetry of the 1920s (Tuwim, Broniewski, Gałczyński) has become a source of musical inspiration. One of the reasons for this popularity seems to be the common anti-system message, combining avant-garde and counterculture. Using the example of musical adaptations of Julian Tuwim’s poetry, the article tries to point out the common ground between avant-garde poetry and alternative aesthetics. These links can be seen in the strong politicisation of the message, social involvement, but also in the sensitivity to the word, the turn to the everyday and the lan-guage of the street.