The borderline of folklore and popular culture in the metropolitan city of Łódź. From the mid-19th century to 1939

The publications included in the anthology on Łódź workers' folklore, serial novels and satire from the daily and occasional press concern materials collected and interpreted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In addition to collections of workers' songs and songs popular among the wider social masses, the anthology contains also satirical texts, newspaper serial novels and cartoon stories, as well as texts of advertisements placed in the press. The articles by specialists and researchers accompanying this content create the necessary cognitive contexts, thanks to which this book tries to fill the not very well-penetrated, several-decades-old gap in reflection on this sphere of the poorly researched metropolitan culture of Łódź. At the same time, it is a popular science book to some extent and does not claim to be comprehensive, nor is it an example of a theoretically unified approach based on the ambition to use the most modern strategies, methods and interpretative assumptions. It is rather an attempt to map the dynamic and fluid phenomenon that was the border between workers' folklore and popular culture in modern Łódź. Therefore, it is a contribution to further research in various fields of the humanities, as well as a creative and educational material, as well as a kind of inspiring text database that can be used by urban culture animators. The anthology therefore presents material for further revealing interpretations.