Rock Music and National Identity in HungaryKathryn Milun Department of Anthropology Rice University ABSTRACT:Marxism and nationalism. The political form and meaning of the discourse of national identity in Hungary as it appears in popular culture. Hungarian rock and shamanpunk. The debate over the national flag.BODY: It is not surprising that the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe has released the repressed conflicts of the “nationalities” question. The problem of national identity was utterly neglected by Marxist-Leninist social theory[1] which in reducing political forms of power to property relations, understood class as the fundamental category for investigating social conflict. Of...