“It is important for us that every participating ensemble bring their own tradition, their own songs, those they inherited from their own place, their own dances and customs,” said Vida Šatkauskienė of the Folklore Day creative group. “And all that diversity, every region, every ensemb...
1.Participate in aSong Festival, a UNESCO-recognized quadrennial mass event where ~30 000 professional and amateur singers from all over Lithuania and diaspora communities come to Vilnius to sing Lithuanian songs together. The sheer number of singers create an unparalleled grand feeling of unity, esp...
However, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was not a nation-state in the modern sense. It did not seek to impose the Lithuanian language, religion, customs, or culture on its non-Lithuanian inhabitants. On the contrary, if the dukes would move from Lithuanian lands to rule the non-Lithuanian la...
Examples from nowadays folklore demonstrate the continuation of traditions. Creation of these narratives was influenced by certain specific reasons. Disparagement of strangers and their religion is an international phenomenon. The strange religion tends to be viewed and appreciat...
While some uses of plants in this flow were predominant in the past and continue to be integral to ongoing traditions (Fig. 8), others have lost their significance for the studied communities, remaining only in the historical written records. In such cases, the plants are still used, but ...
Lithuanian→Grammar→0 to A1 Course→ Singular and Plural Nouns Welcome to today's lesson onLithuanian Grammar, where we will explore the fascinating world ofsingular and plural nouns! Understanding how nouns work in Lithuanian is essential for building your language skills and forming meaningfu...
At the time of the prohibition of the Lithuanian press published in Latin letters by the Russian Tsarist power, which lasted from 1864 to 1904, the Lithuanian evenings were held as a noticeable form of revealing the ethnic traditions with the performance of folklore music in them. Folklore ...
By the 20th century there were already two different, yet interacting traditions: the local-type celebration in rural locations and the imported European-type celebration in the noble estates and among city-dwellers. In the beginning of the 20th century urban dwellers in...
Ann was sustained by conservatism of village life and culture, the settled way of life of communities and the sustainability of customs, traditions and self-consciousness. It is worth noticing that from the abundant pantheon of heavenly patrons that exist only a few saints took such deep root ...
Thus we have to consider the existence of uninterrupted direct continuation of the funeral tradition. Like many centuries ago, death and funeral traditions still constitute one of the cardinal transformations in the circle of human life.Žičkienė,AušraFolklore Studie...