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The subject of the paper is the genesis of football chants sung by Legia Warszawa fans. The author attempts to reconstruct the process of creating these chants and to identify the cultural inspirations that accompany this process.
So far football chants have been considered by social sciences and humanities mainly through the prism of selected textual motifs, most of the published works have also been limited to the cultural circle of the British Isles – the present work tries to go beyond these schemes.
The paper uses Philip Tagg’s concept of axiomatic triangle, dividing music into folk music, art music and popular music.
The author created a database of over 200 Legia fan chants, which were analysed for their source using critical discourse analysis. The research material collected for this paper was gathered using primarily autoethnography, participant observation, semi structured in-depth interviews (41 active and engaged Legia Warszawa supporters were surveyed from 2018 onwards, more than half of whom can be described as ultras: people directly involved in organising and preparing the cheering [flags, special settings, chants] and leading it during the match) and internet research.
This is the first step towards creating a new, original and universal typology of football chants.
