Bartók, Hungary, and the renewal of tradition: case studies in the intersection of modernity and nationality

Tradition rejected : Bartók's polemics and the nineteenth-century Hungarian musical inheritance

Tradition maintained : nationalism, verbunkos, Kossuth and the Rhapsody, op. 1

Tradition transformed : "The night's music" and the pastoral roots of a modern style

Tradition challenged : confronting Stravinsky

Tradition transcribed : the Rhapsody for violin no. 1, the politics of folk-music research and the artifice of authenticity

Tradition restored : the Violin concerto, verbunkos and Hungary on the eve of World War II.