COURAGE

povezivanje zbirki

Predstavljena zbirka sadrži životni opus Srđana Hofmana, kompozitora, od kraja 1960ih do danas. Hofman je predstavnik postmodernizma u muzici, posebno istaknut po svojim kompozicijama i delovanjem u oblasti elektroakustične muzike. Zbog prirode muzike kao umetnosti, ova kolekcija sadrži različite medije, poput notnih zapisa njegovih kompozicija, kao i tonskih zapisa njihovih izvođenja (kako u elektronskom obliku tako na u prenosiocima zvuka), zajedno sa autorovim publikacijama i publikacijama o njegovoj muzici. Kako zbirka reflektuje Hofmanovo stvaralaštvo, njen početak vezan je za prve kompozicije s kraja 1960-ih, dok je zbirka još uvek u nastajanju, imajući u vidu autorovu prolifičnost.

The Closed Stacks Department of the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) was established in 1946. Everything that was not permitted by the censors and could not be part of the public collection of the library was put here. The librarians argued that the task of the national library was to collect every type of publication regardless of its content. The books and journals which were published by Hungarians who fled the country after the Revolution of 1956 added to the number of items. The department became a meeting point for members of the emerging opposition in the 1980s, which created an opportunity to get actual samizdat writings.

The samizdat holdings in the Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives is a unique collection of illegal publications of the Hungarian oppositional intellectual circles. Though censorship was milder in Hungary than it was in the other countries of the Eastern Bloc, it would not have been possible for these volumes to have been published in socialist Hungary without independent publishers in the secondary public sphere, or “islands of the free press.”