Made in Hungary

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Emília Barna and Tamás Tófalvy


January 2017 | Routledge

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Introduction

The Study of Popular Music in Hungary

EMÍLIA BARNA


 

Part I: Scenes, Cultures and Identities

1. Setting Up a Tent in the “New Europe:” The Sziget Festival of Budapest

ANNA SZEMERE and KATA MÁRTA NAGY

2. Taming the Extreme: Hungarian Black Metal in the Mainstream Publicity

ATTILA GYULAI

3. Learned Helplessness of a Cultural Scene: The Hungarian Contemporary Jazz Scene through the Eyes of Its Participants

RÉKA SZABÓ

4. A Translocal Music Room of One’s Own: Female Musicians within the Budapest Lo-Fi Music Scene

EMÍLIA BARNA


 

Part II: History, Politics and Remembering

5. The Songs Remain the Same: Structures of Cultural Politics of Retro in Hungarian Pop Music

FERENC HAMMER

6. “Hungarian in Form, Socialist in Content:” The Concept of National Dance Music in Stalinist Hungary

ÁDÁM IGNÁCZ

7. Paper Mohawk: On a Missing Hungarian Punk Monograph

NORBERT VASS

8. “Nothing But the Music…:” The History of Hungarian Funk Music

JÓZSEF HAVASRÉTI


 

Part III: Artists, Receptions and Audiences

9. The Insecure Village Girl Who Found Success, and Her Gentle Deconstructions: Bea Palya

ANDRÁS RÓNAI

10. “Gloomy Sunday:” The Hungarian “Suicide Hymn” between the Myths and Interpretations

ÁGNES PATAKFALVI-CZIRJÁK

11. “This Kind of Music Informs You about the Present State of the World:” DJ Palotai’s Position within the Contemporary Hungarian Underground Culture

SÁNDOR KÁLAI

12. The Way They Were: Subcultural Experiences of Emo Fans from a Retrospective Aspect

ÁDÁM GULD

13. The Growth of the Hungarian Popular Music Repertoire: Who Creates It and How does It Find an Audience?

DÁNIEL ANTAL


 

Coda

14. “My Genes in My Suitcase, My Forehead in the Atmosphere:” Perceptions of Hungarian Popular Music and Its Research Abroad

ANNA SZEMERE


 

Afterword

15. “A Dozen Songs Put in the Right Order:” A Conversation with Yonderboi

ANDRÁS RÓNAI, EMÍLIA BARNA and TAMÁS TÓFALVY