| Abstract [eng] |
Weakening interest in own traditional culture, self-denationalisation tendency of an individual – these are just a few of the many factors stimulating cultural unification of a nation. One of the major challenges today is to restore the balance between nationality and cosmopolitanism, traditionalism and modernism, ethnocentrism and cultural realism. Musical folklore as one of the components of the living tradition (ethno- culture) of rural seed constantly submits to processes of expression, dissemination, existence and decay. In the context of these processes the expression of Lithuanian folklore (due to its inherent characteristics) in the present- day socio- cultural environment is becoming increasingly more problematic. Due to the intensive changes in musical culture young people in the twenty- first century find it increasingly more difficult to understand the traditional interpretation and presentation of Lithuanian folk music. Life in a modern society, being far away from the natural rural environment of the traditional culture causes texts, symbols and meanings that were brought to existence by such environment to become unclear as well. Presentation of folk music as part of our traditional innate culture, in the process of education partly contradicts the current situation – students, living in present- day sociocultural space, knowing other musical traditions and their values are simply unable to understand and accept the music with its texts and intonations having been formed in another environment and at another time. It can therefore be assumed that the process of making the ethno musical education more efficient should primarily be associated with methods of interpretation and presentation of forms of expression of folklore, thus bringing them closer to forms of expression of musical culture that are modern, popular among and understandable to students. [...]. |
