{"id":540,"date":"2013-12-10T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uw.edu\/reecas\/?p=540"},"modified":"2016-09-21T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:33:07","slug":"baltic-studies-professor-highlights-power-of-song-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/baltic-studies-professor-highlights-power-of-song-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltic Studies professor highlights power of song in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Baltic_Gaudeamus_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-537 \" src=\"http:\/\/ellisoncenter.washington.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Baltic_Gaudeamus_600-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian flags at the Gaudeamus Baltic students' song festival, Vingis Park, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 3, 1988. (Antanas Bajori\u016bnas | Perspectives)\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian flags at the Gaudeamus Baltic students&#8217; song festival, Vingis Park, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 3, 1988. (Antanas Bajori\u016bnas | Perspectives)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The link between the UW and Baltic singing traditions will be strengthened again this January as Guntis \u0160midchens, head of the <a title=\"Baltic communities celebrate in support of UW program\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uw.edu\/reecas\/2013\/10\/24\/baltic-communities-celebrate-in-support-of-uw-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baltic Studies Program<\/a>, releases his new book,\u00a0<em>The Power of Song<\/em><em>. <\/em>The book explores the Baltic Singing Revolution of the 1980s and 1990s &#8212; a non-violent resistance movement to regain independence from the Soviet Union.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.washington.edu\/newsletter\/Dec13\/Baltics.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>\u00a0about \u0160midchens and his book\u00a0in the College of Arts and Sciences newsletter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.washington.edu\/newsletter\/Dec13\/Baltics.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Perspectives<\/a>, and catch up on the musical relationship between the UW and the Baltics\u00a0<a title=\"Singing across the Sea: UW Music Department strengthens ties to the Baltic\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uw.edu\/reecas\/2013\/11\/14\/singing-across-the-sea-uw-music-department-strengthens-ties-to-the-baltic\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link between the UW and Baltic singing traditions will be strengthened again this January as Guntis \u0160midchens, head of the Baltic Studies Program, releases his new book,\u00a0The Power of Song. The book explores the Baltic Singing Revolution of the 1980s and 1990s &#8212; a non-violent resistance movement to regain independence from the Soviet Union.\u00a0Read<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/baltic-studies-professor-highlights-power-of-song-in-new-book\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":8457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[37,56,74,85,119,123,178],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-spotlight","category-news","tag-baltics","tag-culture","tag-estonia","tag-folk-song","tag-latvia","tag-lithuania","tag-soviet-union"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Baltic Studies professor highlights power of song in new book - The Ellison Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/baltic-studies-professor-highlights-power-of-song-in-new-book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Baltic Studies professor highlights power of song in new book - The Ellison Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The link between the UW and Baltic singing traditions will be strengthened again this January as Guntis \u0160midchens, head of the Baltic Studies Program, releases his new book,\u00a0The Power of Song. 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