This volume presents the compositions written in Hungary in the period between 1956 and 1989 and examines the entire repertoire of the composers of the period. In just over three decades of the so-called "Kádár era"-a period characterized by historians with the terms "goulash communism" or "the happiest barracks" due to the liberal nature of the system compared to the other countries behind the Iron Curtain-all generations of Hungarian composers had the opportunity to get acquainted with the current trends of modern music. This made it possible to modify their compositional perspective...