Lithuania's reverberating Singing Revolution and generational fissures beyond the post-Soviet

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Lithuania's reverberating Singing Revolution and generational fissures beyond the post-Soviet
In the Book:
Baltic musics beyond the post-Soviet / edited by Jeffers Engelhardt, Katherine Pukinskis. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2024. P. 27-52. (Politics and society in the Baltic sea region ; 5)
Summary / Abstract:

EN[...] In this chapter, I explore an ongoing reckoning with collective transgenerational trauma as it manifests in both reverberating memories of Soviet Lithuania’s rock scene from the Singing Revolution years and in changing trends in current rock and pop works. I look at how performers and audiences navigated, via rock music, memories of the Singing Revolution based on circulating media coverage, documentary films, and political initiatives. These reverberations of 1980s Lithuanian rock are then contextualized with currently produced rock and pop songs that demonstrate two clashing kinds of aesthetics – a lingering post-Soviet concentration on imitating songs from the West, and the latest (‘post-post-Soviet’) retrospective exploration of Lithuania’s sonic map. Finally, I discuss potential reasons for conflicting and co-existing socio-cultural currents in Lithuania in line with ongoing generational fissures and the collective processing of the recent past. [...]. [Extract, p. 27-28]

DOI:
10.12697/PSBSR5
ISBN:
9789916275542
ISSN:
2228-4451; 2228-446X
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2025-03-11 17:09:00
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