iMusic Dividedi 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, B la Bart k. She shows how a tense period of political transition plagued Bart k's music and imperiled those who took a stand on its aesthetic value in the emerging socialist state. Her fascinating investigation of Bart k's reception outside of Hungary demonstrates that Western composers, too, formulated their ideas about musical style under the influence of ever-escalating cold war tensions.br br iMusic Dividedi surveys Bart k's role in provoking negative reactions to accessible music from Pierre Boulez, Hermann Scherchen, and Theodor Adorno. It considers Bart k's influence on t