Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical, and propagandistic responses to the music of Hungary s most renowned twentieth-century composer, Bela Bartok. She shows how a tense period of political transition plagued Bartok s music and imperiled those who took a stand on its aesthetic value in the emerging socialist...