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The city has always been a cultural construction and a real place to live. It was able to reflect,
to represent and to metaphorise the complexity of social hierarchies, the cultural characteristics
of human life by its real spatial relations. The parallel notions of polis, urbs, and civitas can
be shown as models of a complex and contradictory form of existence belonging to the
representation of a settlement.
The paper examines the representation of the city of Budapest in the context of the Hungarian
underground lyrics in the 1980s. The fictionalised images of the city in the texts under
discussion move from the particularity of subculture to the universality of culture.
The lyrics of Spions, URH, Kontroll Csoport (Control Group) Európa Kiadó, Balaton,
Bizottság (The Commitee) mixed the literary topoi, Foucault’s “heterotopias”, rock and roll
pop-cultural clichés and the “effets du réel” sociological reality in order to create a highly
complex and enduring vision of Budapest in the particular conditions of the cultural politics
of the time.
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