Straipsniai apie muziką lietuviškuose periodiniuose leidiniuose (1940 m. birželis - 1944 m. vasara)
Articles on music in Lithuanian periodicals (June of 1940 - summer of 1944)

Summary/Abstract: The object of this article is music articles published in Lithuanian periodicals. The aim is to group the articles by genres and to emphasize their most important themes.The chronological limits of the articles cover the years of the first Soviet occupation and the Nazi occupation period. In Soviet times it was forbidden to investigate this period more deeply. This period of Lithuanian history is considered to be almost a white spot in the historiography of culture. Nevertheless, the object of investigation is attractive, as the cultural life was very intensive, because culture was treated as an effective form of defence against the occupants.However, just a few periodicals acknowledged by occupation authorities were being published. Paradoxically, they contained a lot of articles on cultural events. A lot of reviewers, who worked separately in different publications, now gathered into a couple of them. Besides, a new generation grown up by freedom times made its debut.Critique of all branches of art as well as music critique had some very significant common features. The first one is that no problematical articles, usually directed to the future, were written. The second one is that personal publications about the past time culture activists as well as about the alive ones on their anniversary occasions were presented more often than in the pre-war period. After deportations and massacres of the first Soviet occupation, artists tried to come closer together, to cherish each other.The annotations and reviews are colourful, showing the perception depth and touch. Music articles, as well as other cultural publications, revealed the nation's efforts to dissociate with occupational ideology. The work was done just in a professional manner, following the values formed during the pre-war period.

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