[78-L] Does anybody know an institution that has a large collection of Polish recordings made in this country?

[Eric Byron]

Benno,

Once again, thank you.

Eric
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>I don't think that a Polka site would be appropriate.
> The polka may have originated in Poland, but it is traditionally known in 
> many cultures.
> The polka boundaries include the following regions and all territories 
> inside, but not ouside.
>
> Let's start with Alsace in France, from there South to the Auvergne 
> mountains in Central France,
> onward Southwest to Liguria (Northern Italy), Southbound to Naples, across 
> Italy and over the
> the Adriatic Sea to Montenegro, onward to Serbia, North to Eastern Croatia 
> (Slavonia), further
> North to Austria, Eastward to Slovakia, then all the way North including 
> Galicia, Western Ukraine,
> Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, westward across the Baltic Sea to mid-Sweden 
> and mid-Norway,
> South to Denmark, Netherlands, Luxemburg and back to Alsace.
>
> In other words: you will not find traditional polkas in Western France or 
> even Great Britain, nor
> in Southern Italy South of Naples, nor in Albania and Greece, not in 
> Hungary and Russia, and
> neither in Northern Sweden and Norway.
>
> Strangely, these boundaries are more or less also the boundaries of the 
> architectural
> style of Baroque!  (Hungary and Western Romania included in this case, 
> because they were part
> of the Austrian Empire)
>
> Anyway, this is why I think that a Polka organisation has little or 
> nothing to do with Poland.
>
> Benno
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