Links
Folklore
- Latviešu folkloras krātuve
- http://www.lfk.lv/
- Latvia has an extremely rich folkloric history and thankfully there are still people involved in documenting and researching this cultural goldmine. It involves labour-intensive fieldwork, finding and interviewing those elderly Latvians in all regions of Latvia who still remember the songs, tales, proverbs, superstitions and other traditions of their childhood. The Archives of Latvian Folklore (Latviešu folkloras krātuve, or LFK) are located within the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art within the Latvian Academy of Sciences. The archives house an audio as well as a photo collection and includes the well-known "Daiņu skapis" (Cabinet of Folksongs), made to Krišjānis Barons' own specifications to systematically compartmentalise all the folksongs that had been collected by Barons and his team more than 100 years ago. The site provides an interesting historical overview of folklore research in the past few centuries in Latvia. EN LV (Reviewed March 2006)
- Latviešu tautas dziesmas
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/latvian/
- You don't need to go dusting off those printed volumes of Latvian folk songs anymore. The dainas are now at your fingertips whenever you're on the Web. The University of Virginia Library has made the full set of 12 volumes of Latviešu tautas dziesmas (Latvian Dainas) available to all on the Web. The online version is browsable and also allows readers to search by volume, page, and word or phrase. The work originally was published from 1952-1956 in Denmark and edited by Arveds Švābe, Kārlis Straubergs and Edīte Hauzenberga-Šturma. The online version is made possible in part by the Milda Zīlava Memorial Fund, established in memory of the Latvian stage and film actress. The university received permission from the holder of the copyright to the printed edition, Eiženija Reitmane, and has also made use of Imants Freibergs' Boston-Montreal Dainas Data Base to create this searchable version (Freibergs is the husband of Latvian President Vaira Vīķē-Freiberga). EN LV (Reviewed February 2006)
- XXIII Vispārējie latviešu dziesmu un deju svētki
- http://www.dziesmusvetki2008.lv/
- When is the next Song and Dance Festival in Latvia? We're never 100 percent sure until we start seeing some hard evidence in the press or on the Web. The next festival is scheduled for summer 2008, but information on actual dates has not yet been released. On the official Web site it's interesting to follow all the preparation and competitions to determine the theme, who'll participate and the repertoire. Many aspects of this grand event are subject to serious scrutiny many months beforehand. Just look at all the events scheduled for 2006 around Latvia -- and that's two years before the big event. Having dug into this site we could be convinced that cultural life in Latvia is marked in terms of the time passed between song festivals! EN LV (Reviewed February 2006)
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