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Some Of The Most Popular Works Of Nineteenth-century Music Were Labeled Either Hungarian Or Gypsy In Style, Including Many Of The Best-known And Least-respected Of Liszt's Compositions. In The Early Twentieth Century, Béla Bartók And His Colleagues Questioned Not Only The Hungarianness But Also The Good Taste Of That Style. Bartók Argued That It Should Be Discarded In Favor Of A National Style Based In The Genuine Folk Music Of The Rural Peasantry. Between The Heyday Of The Nineteenth-century Hungarian-gypsy Style And Its Replacement By A New Paradigm Of Authentic National Style Was A Vigorous Decades-long Debate-one Little Known Inside Or Outside Hungary-over What It Meant To Be Hungarian, European, And Modern. Redefining Hungarian Music From Liszt To Bartók Traces The Historical Process That Defined The Conventions Of Hungarian-gypsy Style. Author Lynn M. Hooker Frames Her Study Around The 1911 Celebration Of Liszt's Centennial.^ In So Doing, She Analyzes Liszt's Problematic Role As A Hungarian-born Composer And Leader Of Hungarian Art Music Who Spent Most Of His Life Outside Of Hungary And Questioned Whether Hungary's National Music Was More The Creation Of Hungarians Or Roma (g

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Author

Lynn M. Hooker

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199739592

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts