Contents

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Series
• Foreword
• Introduction The Study of Popular Music in Hungary
• Part I : Scenes, Cultures and Identities
• 1. Setting Up a Tent in the "New Europe:" The Sziget Festival of Budapest
• 2. Taming the Extreme: Hungarian Black Metal in the Mainstream Publicity
• 3. Learned Helplessness of a Cultural Scene: The Hungarian Contemporary Jazz Scene through the Eyes of Its Participants
• 4. A Translocal Music Room of One's Own: Female Musicians within the Budapest Lo-Fi Music Scene
• Part II : History, Politics and Remembering
• 5. The Songs Remain the Same: Structures of Cultural Politics of Retro in Hungarian Pop Music
• 6. "Hungarian in Form, Socialist in Content:" The Concept of National Dance Music in Stalinist Hungary
• 7. Paper Mohawk: On a Missing Hungarian Punk Monograph
• 8. "Nothing But the Music ... :" The History of Hungarian Funk Music
• Part III : Artists, Receptions and Audiences
• 9. The Insecure Village Girl Who Found Success, and Her Gentle Deconstructions: Bea Palya
• 10. "Gloomy Sunday:" The Hungarian "Suicide Hymn" between the Myths and Interpretations
• 11. "This Kind of Music Informs You about the Present State of the World:" DJ Palotai's Position within the Contemporary Hungarian Underground Culture
• 12. The Way They Were: Subcultural Experiences of Emo Fans from a Retrospective Aspect
• 13. The Growth of the Hungarian Popular Music Repertoire: Who Creates It and How does It Find an Audience?
• 14. Coda: "My Genes in My Suitcase, My Forehead in the Atmosphere:" Perceptions of Hungarian Popular Music and Its Research Abroad Afterword: "A Dozen Songs Put in the Right Order:" A Conversation with Yonderboi Select
• Bibliography of Hungarian Popular Music Notes on
• Contributors
• Index