Eastern European Music

Beginning in the nineteenth century, Hungarian immigrants to the United States have tended to settle in urban industrial areas such as Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Chicago; New Brunswick, New Jersey; Gary, Indiana; Lake County, Indiana; Norwalk, New Haven, and Bridgeport, Connecticut. Like other immigrant groups, Hungarians encountered drastic changes in music performance contexts after emigrating to America. In Hungarian villages, dances, social gatherings, weddings, calendrical celebrations,...