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The study focuses attention especially on the polka which holds an ambiguous position in the community, being of non-Polish origin, popular at ethnic celebrations, and in certain contexts, publicly denigrated. It is demonstrated that this ambiguity has yielded the polka to multiple ascriptions of meaning and function for the self-definition of the community and its subgroups.","The Polish-American musical ensembles of Detroit are engaged in an ongoing struggle to maintain a balance between the Polish and non-specifically Polish elements of their repertoires, styles, and forms of self-presentation. This balance plays a strategic role in the Polish-American community's delineation of its differentiable yet viable identities in a musically pluralistic society.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T22:29:07Z (GMT). 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