The Politicised Sound and the Nation's Fury: How the Fidesz Government of Hungary has Expropriated the Music Industry

IMS和研究问题这个项目调查了政治干预和控制对青民盟政府统治下的匈牙利当代音乐产业的影响。工业界和政府之所以交织在一起，是因为正如迈克尔·伊格纳季耶夫所说，该政权在言论上强烈反共，但在实践中却再现了古代改革的特征。1由于公共和私营企业和媒体的交织一直是该党本身日益获得的独裁地位的指标，本文涉及以下问题：--奥班政权以什么方式影响了生产，大众音乐的表现和接受度？--音乐行业对奥班政权的适应在多大程度上以不可预见和不受欢迎的方式损害了他们的职业活动？-音乐如何被用来操纵公众舆论？-匈牙利的情况告诉了我们，在一个民粹主义和后真相政治时代，音乐的使用和滥用有什么更广泛的意义？这项学术调查有可能开启一场亟需的更广泛的对话，因为很明显，在我们这个充斥着错误、虚假信息和政治不确定性的时代，对现代史的学术评论比以往任何时候都更加重要。

ims and Research QuestionsThis project investigates the impact of political interference and control on the contemporary music industry inHungary under the Fidesz administration. The industry and the government have intertwined because, as MichaelIgnatieff puts it, 'the regime is violently anti-Communist in its rhetoric, but in its practice it reproduces features of theancien régime.'1 Because the intertwining of public and private enterprise and media has been an indicator of theparty's ever-gaining autocratic position itself, this dissertation engages with the following questions:- In what ways has the Orbán regime impacted on the production, performance and reception of popularmusic?- To what extent has the music industry's accommodation with Orbán's regime compromised their professionalactivity in unforeseen and undesirable ways?- How has music been used to manipulate public opinion?- What does the situation in Hungary tell us more broadly about the use and abuse of music in an era ofpopulist and post-truth politics?This academic investigation has the potential to start a wider conversation that is much needed, for it is evident thatin our current era of mis- and disinformation and political uncertainty, academic reviews on contemporary historyare becoming more crucial than ever.