Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania (1991)

January 1st, 19910h 53min

Documentary
90%

Overview

The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania - to Budapest, and its effect on views of the value of traditional culture.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Sprout Wings and Fly

Sprout Wings and Fly


Released on: 1983-10-01
Documentary, Music

Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-ol...

Wirklich alles?!

Wirklich alles?!


Released on: 2002-11-30
Documentary

How the Fiddle Flows

How the Fiddle Flows


Released on: 2002-04-26
Documentary

How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Eur...

Message of Stones - Budapest

Message of Stones - Budapest


Released on: 1994-01-01
Documentary

The first film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Harmonium in California

Harmonium in California


Released on: 1980-01-01
Documentary, Music

Through concerts and interviews, folk-progressive group Harmonium takes Quebec culture to California...

Appalachian Journey

Appalachian Journey


Released on: 1991-07-19
Documentary

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 198...

To Hear Your Banjo Play

To Hear Your Banjo Play


Released on: 1947-01-01
Documentary, Music

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance

The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance


Released on: 1990-01-01
Documentary

Produced by JVC in collaboration with a Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings editorial board of scholars ...

Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966

Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966


Released on: 2004-01-01
Documentary

Documentary - Tracing his career up to the point of his 1966 motorcycle accident and subsequent disa...

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Neil Young: Heart of Gold


Released on: 2006-02-17
Documentary, Music

In March 2005, Neil Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Four days before he was scheduled for...

The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time


Released on: 1982-03-07
Documentary, Music

Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumph...

The Angelmakers

The Angelmakers


Released on: 2005-11-24
Documentary

The Angelmakers is a 2005 documentary that provides insight into the epidemic of arsenic murders by ...

The River in Me

The River in Me


Released on:
Documentary

Traversing 700,000 square kilometers over 700 days, the filmmakers bring the stories of five people ...

Illusion

Illusion


Released on: 2019-01-10
Documentary

Once Upon a Time in Hungarian Comics

Once Upon a Time in Hungarian Comics


Released on: 2021-09-10
Documentary

"Once Upon a Time in Hungarian Comics" provides a comprehensive picture of Hungarian comic culture, ...

But Still We Sing

But Still We Sing


Released on: 1979-01-01
Documentary, Music

This BBC Bristol documentary, Narrated by Bert Lloyd looks at the Gaelic music of the Outer Hebrides...

Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul

Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul


Released on: 2004-01-01
Documentary, Music

In Burma, many people believe in ghost spirits called NATs. They are said to possess the power to as...

John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg

John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg


Released on: 1978-03-17
Documentary, Music

"Shot live for TV by the legendary German music show “Rockpalast” this DVD represents the earliest e...

East-West Passage

East-West Passage


Released on: 2010-02-02
Documentary

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. The...

HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara

HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara


Released on: 2024-06-14
Documentary

HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with l...