Bárkányi Ildikó - Lajkó Orsolya (szerk.): A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 2019. Új folyam 6. (Szeged, 2019)
Történettudomány - Lengyel András: Mutatvány az 1945 előtti magyar ellenkultúra kislexikonából - Ötvenöt címszó
András Lengyel A stunt from the encyclopedia of Hungarian counter-culture before 1945 A stunt from the encyclopedia of Hungarian counter-culture before 1945 Fifty-three assorted articles András Lengyel In any given period, there is an easily discernable mainstream and marginal zone in the culture of a given community. The latter one, while it includes the major characteristics of the given culture, it misses many of the features of mainstream and has several new characteristics as well. This picture is nuanced further by the existence of so-called subcultures, which follow society's antagonisms with a high degree of accuracy. Moreover, there are highly complex processes take place in the marginal zone, for instance the cultural opposition, counter-culture, which stands against mainstream culture. First, as a possibility, then - if circumstances allow - in a more and more complex and organized manner, more and more visibly. This is a necessity, modern societies are antagonistically divided and this division is being expressed in a highly coded manner. Counter-culture is born at the rim of course, but sometimes it gains so much momentum that it may present itself as a changer culture. The Hungarian counter-culture before 1918 was one of such cultures. The little encyclopedia which includes the articles below, is the small encyclopedia of Hungarian counter culture from before 1945. Counter culture used to, and still does exist and this is worth considering in more detail. My research period on the other hand is the story of the decades before 1945. Apart from personal reasons: the thing I’m researching is the/ound/ngperiodofHungariancounter-culture. Everything evolved from this later on. The nature of counter-culture is heteronomous. Obviously it has its major and lesser personalities, its heroes and its traitors. It is comprised of geniuses and lesser talents and sometimes even dilettantes - the latter also have their role to play. Naturally, smaller articles were also selected. This is for two reasons. First, they are less well known so there is no harm in at least registering them. Second, the strength and prevalence of counter-culture is shown - paradoxically - by the prevalence of smaller ones: the more lesser ones belong to a counter-culture, the more prevalent such a cultural opposition is, because their existence proves that more and more people are affected by this new attitude. 261
