The 'System of National Cooperation' hit factory
The aesthetic of Hungarian government-commissioned songs between 2010 and 2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilia Barna (0000-0003-2643-4619), Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják (0000-0002-2561-5947) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 333-353 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143022000423 |
| OpenAlex | W4306385949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article addresses the relationship between popular music and populism through three government-commissioned songs, produced for occasions of national remembering during the post-2010 Orbán regime in Hungary, namely 'Barackfa' (2013), 'Egy szabad országért' (2016) and 'Hazám, hazám' (2020). All three songs are one-off collaborations of artists representing various music genres. We ask, firstly, what aesthetic forms make these songs potentially suitable for the performance of national unity, solidarity and the 'people', and secondly, how the songs' structure, production and dissemination can be interpreted as attempts by government commissioners and creators to gain popularity. Drawing on Ostiguy's performative approach to populism, combined with the notion of collective speculation and musical affordances, we identify three main strategies of constructing the 'people' in the songs: singing together as sound, legacy and practice; the pop 'mega-event'; and the use of the folk music aesthetic as 'mother tongue
Aesthetics · Art · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Management · Media studies · Musical · Performative utterance · Political science · Popular music · Popularity · Populism · Singing · Sociology · Solidarity · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Populist Democracy vs Party Democracy
Political Representation
How should we analyze the connections between populism and nationalism
Understanding mega‐events
Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music
What Is Populism
The Retreat of Liberal Democracy
Populism and nationalism
Rocking the nation
State advertising as an instrument of transformation of the media market in Hungary
Memory-Politics and Neonationalism
Music Lovers
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |