

Understandable Antipathy: On Hungarian Rap and Slam Poetry (part 1)
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Understandable Antipathy: On Hungarian Rap and Slam Poetry (part 1)
UNDERSTANDABLE ANTIPATHY:
ON HUNGARIAN RAP AND SLAM POETRY
An Essay by Peter Závada
PART1.
I started my musical career as a hip-hop artist in the mid-90s in post-socialist Hungary, at the birth of Eastern-European liberal democracies. In ’89 the Iron Curtain fell, and the possibility of a free and open society was closer than ever. Or so we thought. Our unconditional trust in the global West didn’t only manifest itself in the desire for blue jeans, color-tv and McDonalds, it made us believe that neoliberal capitalism meant fair competition in business equal opportunity in education, freedom of speech, religion, and sexual orientation. It meant also social support and welfare programs for those in need. We had no idea that late capitalism would only deepen the gap between


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