{"id":3966,"date":"2019-04-20T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2019-05-24T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:02:16","slug":"the-book-nylon-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2019\/04\/20\/the-book-nylon-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book \u201cNylon Curtain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Book presentation at the Library.
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The two-volume monograph Nylon Curtain. Lithuanian Music in the Context of International History of Cold War<\/em>, by the musicologists, Prof. R\u016bta Stanevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong>, Prof. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117<\/strong>, and Prof. Vita Gruodyt\u0117<\/strong>, was presented at the National Library of Lithuania. The book, published in 2018 by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, consists of two volumes: a collective monograph, entitled Nylon Curtain. Cold War, International Exchanges and Lithuanian Music<\/em> and a collection of correspondence, Foreign Correspondence of the Lithuanian Musicians, 1945-1990<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\ncollective monograph, the authors using extensive archival documents gathered\nfrom the state and private archives, as well as published sources, analyze the\nchannels of the exchange of musical information among the individuals and\ninstitutions in Lithuania and foreign countries that took place during the\nSoviet period. They also looked into the reasons that encouraged promoting personal\nand transnational relations between the two musical environments divided by the\nideological confrontation of the Cold War, and posed questions, such as: which\nideological, economic, and cultural constraints and differences limited such\nexchange and what impact international exchanges had on the national music\nscene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The publication\nis polyphonic and multidisciplinary. It analyzes the relationship between music\nand geopolitics: musical exchanges between Lithuanians and Poles during the\nCold War and Lithuania\u2019s geopolitical situation. The publication also focuses\non cultural co-operation, for example, the relations of Lithuanian-Americans with\nthe occupied Lithuania and contacts of the Soviet institutions with the\nLithuanian diaspora. In the second volume, letters written by and to Vincas\nBacevi\u010dius, Antanas Marijo\u0161ius, Elena Navickait\u0117-Martinonien\u0117, Vytautas\nLandsbergis, Juozas Strolys and other representatives of music are published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The metaphor \u201cNylon\nCurtain\u201d was borrowed from the Hungarian historian Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e9ter, who suggested using it in order to be able rethink\nthe relations of the communist countries with the rest of the world during the\nCold War. The authors of the publication note that the metaphor gave them the\nopportunity to look at people\u2019s personal relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-volume\nmonograph reflects and implements authors\u2019 intention to extract the history of\nLithuanian music from a closed national and Soviet cultural context and to link\nLithuanian music development, life of Lithuanian musicians and their professional\ncareer with world-wide political, economic, and cultural processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two-volume monograph Nylon Curtain. Lithuanian Music in the Context of International History of Cold War, by the musicologists, Prof. R\u016bta Stanevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Prof. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117, and Prof. Vita Gruodyt\u0117, was presented at the National Library of Lithuania. The book, published in 2018 by the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, consists of two volumes: a … Toliau skaityti „The Book \u201cNylon Curtain\u201d”<\/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":[722,1,1555],"tags":[1575,3381,2237,3380],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-naujienos","category-news","tag-danute-petrauskaite-en","tag-nylon-curtain","tag-ruta-staneviciute-en","tag-vita-gruodyte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","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=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}