{"id":2428,"date":"2016-04-27T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2016-07-27T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T12:20:06","slug":"a-monograph-about-lithuanian-music-culture-in-the-us-1870-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2016\/04\/27\/a-monograph-about-lithuanian-music-culture-in-the-us-1870-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monograph about Lithuanian Music Culture in the US, 1870-1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2429\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2429\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2016\/07\/Muzikine_kultura-187x250.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117 at the Lituanica Reading Room \" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2016\/07\/Muzikine_kultura-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2016\/07\/Muzikine_kultura.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 85vw, 187px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117 at the Lituanica Reading Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of 2015, Vilnius Academy of Arts Publishing House published a monograph <em><strong>Lithuanian Music Culture in the United States<\/strong>, 1870-1990<\/em> by <strong>prof. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117<\/strong>. The book written in Lithuanian is impressive for its encyclopedic scope and rich content. \u201cThere were times, when I felt like I was drowning in this ocean of material\u201d, admits the author of the book, which covers 120 years of American-Lithuanian music life. Prof. Petrauskait\u0117 not only researched many different written sources, e.g. American-Lithuanian press, abundantly quoted in the monograph, but also visited museums, including Ellis Island.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The book consists of three main sections. The first chapter is an overview of the causes and consequences of emigration. The second chapter analyzes the Lithuanian music culture at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. And finally, the third chapter is dedicated to the American-Lithuanian music culture in the second half of the 20th century. The monograph also contains few annexes, which provide very detailed information about Lithuanian parishes, choirs, and orchestras in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 2015, Vilnius Academy of Arts Publishing House published a monograph Lithuanian Music Culture in the United States, 1870-1990 by prof. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117. The book written in Lithuanian is impressive for its encyclopedic scope and rich content. \u201cThere were times, when I felt like I was drowning in this ocean of material\u201d, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2016\/04\/27\/a-monograph-about-lithuanian-music-culture-in-the-us-1870-1990\/\" class=\"more-link\">Toliau skaityti<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;A Monograph about Lithuanian Music Culture in the US, 1870-1990&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1581,1555],"tags":[1577,1575,1573,1579],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-news","tag-american-lithuanian-music","tag-danute-petrauskaite-en","tag-lithuanian-music-culture-in-the-united-states","tag-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}