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Warsaw Village Band
When Eastern Europe awoke from the retreat of the Soviet glacis in 1989,
everything had to be rebuilt. For forty years, official Communist culture had
tried to eradicate the roots of folk traditions in the countries subjected to
its dictates. Warsaw Village Band was born in Poland in March 1997, with the
dual aim of rehabilitating Polish folklore and bringing it up to date. This they
did masterfully with Hop Sa Sa (1998), Wiosna Ludu (2002), and Wykorzenienie,
which won the BBC World Music Award in 2004. Warsaw Village Band introduces
elements of hip-hop and world fusion into the...
