This article presents a research concluded in 2016, which aimed to unveil how social and cultural issues were represented in Lithuanian rap music. The research shows that social, political and valuable reflections of the state and people are the most reflected by rap texts. It is revealed that rap music helps not only to evaluate, analyze phenomena in the country, but also helps to change, rebuild, and understand them. Research on rap lyrics helps to understand the attitude of hip-hop subculture members towards different events and at the same time look at them from another perspective.
The article deals with communicative failures of journalists in “YouTube” celebrity video interviews in the Ukrainian and German linguacultures from the point of view of social interaction and the theory of speech genres at all structural levels of the communicative genre construction, establishing common and distinctive features in both linguacultures. The analysis made it possible to conclude that behind a language (speech) failure there is a violation caused by a journalist, a respondent, or an external noise.
Hemp is a very valuable plant because each part of it can be used in many ways. It can be used to produce innovative products for building construction, chemical industry, medicine, textile production, consumption, and agriculture. In the article, the authors have aggregated the information about hemp cultivation and processing sector development in the European Union and Latvia and have described its cultivation possibilities, technological processes, and processing capabilities. The aim of the present article was to reveal the topicalities of hemp industry development in the European Union and Latvia. The tasks of the research were to present an overall description of hemp industry development trends in the European Union and to characterize hemp industry development in Latvia focusing on the national support activities and hemp cultivation and processing opportunities. The authors of the article have performed an extensive secondary data analysis to summarize the most important activities that should be done at the national scale to further enhance the development of hemp industry in Latvia.
The purpose of this article is to investigate the mechanisms contributing to increasing of the efficiency of the institutions andinstruments ensuring the innovative development of Russia, increasing of its competitiveness in terms of accession to the WTOand the OECD. The article considers factors, negatively influencing on the innovative development of Russia. In the article wasconducted comparative analysis of expenditure on R&D in the different countries, analysis of modern methods and tools of statesupport of innovative development. A complex of additional measures aimed at enhancing the innovative activity of the businesssector and the measures of state support of innovative development in Russia are proposed.
The article is devoted to an ethnomusicological, musical-textological, and performing analysis of the traditional dance the Hutsulka. The material is an audio recording of an anonymous wedding band from the Galician-Hutsul part of the Ukrainian Carpathians, made in the first half of the 20th century. This recording is included in the album ‘Music of the Ukraine’ released by the studio Folkways Records USA (vinyl, 1951). As the oldest known audio recording of the Hutsulka, the piece ‘Hutsulka and Kozachok Dances’ is characterised by an original interpretation of the genre at the musical form-building and thematic levels. Based on an analysis of the musical form, the melodic scale and the rhythmic structure, typical features of the performance style of the Kosmach-Brustury tradition are revealed. They are especially evident in the playing by the fiddler and fuyarnist. The identity of the fiddler was established hypothetically, by comparing these data with the testimonies of respondents.
The article focuses on the issue of the leadership competence of the heads of progymnasiums as a factor in making schools more effective. Progymnasium is part of the Lithuanian system, an institution of general education (Forms 1 to 8), an intermediate link between an elementary school and gymnasium, which differs from basic school in higher quality of activity, the created added value, and pupils’ learning achievements. Quantitative research was conducted with the participation of 193 progymnasium teachers. The research revealed that the leadership competence of the heads of progymnasiums significantly contributed to making schools more effective in terms of participation in projects, favourable conditions for teacher initiatives, participation of community members in the self-evaluation process, creating conditions for teacher professional development, supporting and promoting initiatives, initiating the process of progress and achievement assessment, ensuring the coherence of the mission, vision, and values of the educational institution, the involvement of parents /guardians/ caregivers, promotion of communication and collaboration between community members, and the maintenance of sustainable relations with social partners. The obtained research findings are to be considered as relevant for seeking active expression of leadership of the school authorities and teachers and making progymnasiums more effective.
5-oji tarpdalykinė mokslinė konferencija „Tradicijos ir modernybės sąveika“, vykusi 2019 m. lapkričio 20–21 d. Klaipėdos universitete bei Telšių vyskupo Vincento Borisevičiaus kunigų seminarijoje, skirta Žemaitijos vardo paminėjimo rašytiniuose šaltiniuose 800-osioms metinėms ir Telšių vyskupo Vincento Borisevičiaus kunigų seminarijos atkūrimo 30-mečiui. Klaipėdos universiteto Socialinių ir humanitarinių mokslų fakultete susirinko per 30 pranešėjų iš įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio šalių mokslo ir studijų institucijų.
Šiuolaikinėje lietuvių, latvių ir estų muzikoje atsispindi ypatingas reiškinys – baltiškasis fenomenas, susijęs su gelmės gausmu, bangų ciklais, dimensijos augimu ir apokaliptiniu transcendentalizmu. Jo bruožai yra tarsi amžinybės stilius – begalinė melodija, ritmo monotonija, gelmių jėgos telkimasis ir lūžis į Nušvitimą. Jo reikšmėse glūdi ir religinis, ir gamtiškasis panteistinis aspektai, ir ieškojimai „kitos erdvės“ bei vizijos horizontalės paradigma. Tai galima įvardyti kaip baltiškąjį fenomeną, motyvuojamą išlikimo atšiauriomis geopolitinėmis sąlygomis, konfrontuojant su Rusijos imperializmo grėsme. Šią koncepciją praplečia ir savaip sutvirtina naujas lietuviškos tapatybės rekonceptas – posūkis į baroką ir europines vertybes per kultūros brandą, raiškos polifoniją, valstybingumo patirtį, dvasinį Apšvietos racionalizmą.
Straipsnyje nagrinėjami veiksniai, darantys įtaką inovacijų diegimui Lietuvos viešbučių versle. Sprendžiama mokslinė problema: kokie inovacijų diegimo veiksniai aktualiausi Lietuvos viešbučių versle. Taikant ekspertinio vertinimo ir apklausos metodus atliekamas inovacijų diegimą lemiančių veiksnių vertinimas. Nustatyti svarbiausi inovacijų diegimą lemiantys veiksniai: rinkos imlumas, materialiniai ir finansiniai įmonės ištekliai. Inovacijų diegimą Lietuvos viešbučiuose labiausiai skatina konkurentai ir klientai. Pateikiamos rekomendacijos, kaip gerinti inovacinę veiklą Lietuvos viešbučių versle.