Lietuviškos dainos ir giesmės vaidmuo puoselėjant lietuvybę spaudos draudimo metais (XIX a. pab. – XX a. pr.)
The Role of The Lithuanian Song and Ecclesiastic Hymn in Cherishing the Lithuanian Language During the Years of Press Prohibition (in the End of the 1

Summary/Abstract: Article researches cultural situation that emerged in the beginning of the 19th – the end of the 20th centuries after czarist Russia prohibited Lithuanian press in the territory of Lithuania subdued by Russia. During the years of press prohibition (1864–1904) book-bearers surreptitiously conveyed Lithuanian publications that were printed in Lithuania Minor to Lithuania Major. Song collections and ecclesiastic hymnals, periodic publications that published Lithuanian songs and ecclesiastic hymns contributed a lot to the conservation and maintenance of Lithuanian word and spirit in Lithuania that was russificated. Newspapers that were published in Lithuania Minor were also very important: „Tėvynės sargas“ (“Custodian of the Homeland”), „Žinyčia“ (“News”), „Aušra“ (Dawn”), „Varpas“ (“Bell”), „Saulėtaka“ (“Sunrise”), „Prūsų Lietuvos savaitraštis“ (“Weekly of Prussian Lithuania”). Especially significant were collections of Lithuanian folk songs and folklore (“Lithuanian Songs” v. I, 1880; v. II, 1881; v. III, 1882) surreptitiously published by Antanas Juška in Kazan (Russia) and distributed in subdued Lithuania; novella „Palangos Juzė“ (“Joseph of Palanga”) by Motiejus Valančius (1869) with verbal texts of songs and hymns. Lithuanian song and ecclesiastic hymn were of no less importance and efficiency during the years of press prohibition than all other published literature in Lithuania.

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