The BRB Guide to Budapest: Music and Money
The BRB Guide to Budapest: Music and Money

Summary/Abstract: Hungary is considered as a musical country thanks to the large number of Hungarian-born musicians who have attained world fame. This claim can be further backed by a unique feature of the forty years of totalitarianism in Hungary (1949-89). They produced a snobbish dictatorship that tried to educate its citizens, initially through severe censorship, which later became more relaxed. The less money this policy had at its disposal, the less it exercised censorship on education. One of the focuses of this campaign “Let’s Educate the Hungarian Masses” was classical music—Hungarian and foreign.

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