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Published Online: Dec 30, 2016
Page range: 53 - 70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/muso-2016-0006
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© 2016 Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek, published by De Gruyter Open
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The paper is a survey of research on music in territories of occupied Poland conducted by the author in recent years, as well as a review of selected existing literature on this topic. A case study illustrates a principal thesis of this essay according to which music was used by the German Nazis in the General Government as a key elements of propaganda and in appropriation of conquered territories as both physical and symbolic spaces.