Lisa Jakelski’s dissertation in Music, The Changing Seasons of the Warsaw Autumn: Contemporary Music in Poland, 1960-1990, is a history of the state-supported Warsaw Autumn International Festival, one of the most important gatherings for new music in the postwar period. An annual showcase for musical modernism, the festival featured works that could not have been performed elsewhere in the European bloc at that time. Jakelski tells the history of the festival as a series of case studies of key performances, their critical reception, and the debates they inspired.