Shifts in Lithuanian Culture of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Folk Music in Vilnius
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LSE.2018.57.04Keywords
urbanization, shifts in culture, folklore movement, contemporary folk music, postmodernismAbstract
A modern metropolis is an artificially created landscape brimming with a vast variety of significant places, public spaces that mark the historical past, streets with flows of transport, and internet networks that transmit information at lightning speed; it is a landscape with numerous cultural institutions and even with locations where these institutions are concentrated (cultural industries). Traditional culture lives on in such a complex urban structure yet in modest conditions, small premises, or abandoned spaces. Hardly will a resident of Vilnius, who is not interested in it, detect any signs of its existence, but more curious burghers know that they can visit various events associated with traditional culture. Traditional culture has adapted itself: it has found a shelter and has taken root like moss on a stone.
This research was carried out by participating in the folklore movement of Vilnius, by taking part in various events and carefully observing them. Having scrutinized the musical scene, the author found some connections between the changes that traditional music underwent in earlier times and the historical shifts she has witnessed in her own lifetime.
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List of photographs
Photo 1 Sutartinės singers from Kupiškis, 1936. Photo by Z. Slaviūnas, from the archives LTRFt 9007.
Photo 2 The performance Wedding of Kupiškis, 1934. Photo by B. Buračas, from the archives LTRFt 369.
Photo 3 Folklore festival Skamba skamba kankliai, 1984. Photo by V. Daraškevičius.
Photo 4 Sutartinės singers group Trys keturiose, 2012. Photo by K. Verseckas.
Photo 5 Folk music concert at the Gediminas’ castle, 2009. Photo by A. Nakienė.
Photo 6 Folk music stage in the park of Sereikiškės, 2009. Photo by A. Nakienė.
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