Author interview: Szabolcs László
Szabolcs László talks to us about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989 (Bloomsbury, 2026).
In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast, I sat down with Szabolcs László to talk about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989 (Bloomsbury, 2026). We discussed how during the Cold War Hungarian writers, intellectuals, and academics took part in various programmes that allowed them to spend time in the United States of America, to build networks with their western counterparts, and how grassroots effort helped in spreading Hungarian know-how, such as the Kodály method, to the US and various other parts of the world.
You can purchase the book from Bloomsbury here.
You can read more about Szabolcs’s research on the Kodály method in his Open Access article here.
You can also watch a short video here (in Hungarian) about the Kodály method here.