Sławomir Skręta is the owner of the
Polish
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record label
Blue Star, known for releasing domestic dance music known as
disco polo
Disco polo is a music genre, genre of popular music, popular dance music, created in Poland in the 1980s, it was initially known as "sidewalk music" ()Anna KowalczyKrótka historia disco polo"Wiedza i Życie". Nr 9/1997. (Polish language, Polis ...
. He, his label and its artists are featured in the Polish documentary on disco polo, Bara Bara, by filmmaker
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.
The original name of the genre, muzyka chodnikowa (“sidewalk music”), that referred to cassettes sales from temporary stands on the sidewalks, was changed to the “nobler-sounding” disco polo as a reference to Italo-disco. The name change was the inspiration of Sławomir Skręta, the owner of Blue Star, the first label established to record such music.
Polish Hip-Hop as the Voice of “New Others” in the Post-Socialist Transition, Footnote 14
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