What is patriotism as opposed to nationalism? And which of these is what sometimes surfaces in contemporary rock music?

Magazyn Muzyczny was one of the two top 'cult magazines' of the communist period. Like its rival, Non Stop, it promoted pop music, especially rock. Both magazines went through a similar evolution, although the latter had a much longer history, as it was the direct successor of Jazz, the oldest entertainment music magazine in Central and Eastern Europe, established in 1956. However, since the 1980s — what with editorial, personal, structural changes, and above all the shift of the musical taste of many, mainly young Poles, effected by the rock boom — it became in principle (and in recent years) a virtually new periodical. Its quantitative (structural) analysis has filled the content of this article, but it also forms the basis of a broader study, which is due to appear in print in the near future in the form of a two-volume monograph.