Музыкально-культурные связи литовцев и украинцев во времена советской ссылки или политического заключения в Сибири

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Traditional music making; Soviet exile; Political imprisonment; Lithuanians; Ukrainians.

ENThe purpose of this work is to display a panorama and the notion of the essence of versatile traditional musical-cultural relationships among the repressed Lithuanians and Ukrainians in the Soviet era Siberia. Methodology of the study is a systematic approach to the analysis of traditional musical cultures in conditions of the communist authoritarian Stalinist regime, repressions and deformations in the way of life, methods of qualitative research, phenomenological, typological, comparative, and historical. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by an advanced approach to studying the socio-musical and cultural principles of Lithuanian-Ukrainian relations and contacts in certain political-historical and existential conditions. Conclusions. Our research confirmed that during the Soviet mass exile and political imprisonment in Siberia in the 1940s-1950s between Lithuanians and Ukrainians (especially Westerners), the relationships were the best. Consolidation and mutual respect, understanding and exchange among Lithuanians and Ukrainians in the sphere of informal traditional music and culture (the performance of folk songs and the songs themselves, the singing of religious psalms, sometimes – joint playing in instrumental ensembles and celebrating of traditional celebrations) has become one of the most important forms and means of preserving and continuing of their national identities, reinforcement of their vital forces in spiritual, and sometimes physical resistance against to the regime. [From the publication]