The Musical Code of Round-Number Birthday Celebrations for Seniors in Lithuania
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round-number birthdays, seniors, singing, music, LithuaniaAbstract
This article examines round-number birthday celebrations for people in Lithuania using video recordings uploaded to the internet over the past decade. The focus of attention is birthday celebrations for seniors (age fifty and over). The main goal is to use a structural and semantic approach in order to reveal the cultural and social meanings of celebrations through their musical code.
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