Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

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The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania - to Budapest, and its effect on views of the value of traditional culture.
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