Guntis Smidchens
Biographic Data
| ID | 714413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guntis Smidchens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guntis |
| FAMILY NAME | Smidchens |
| SIGNATURE | SMIDCHENS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kristin Kuutma (1959–2025)
The Storytelling Human
Baltimaade üldlaulupidude laulutraditsioonid ja pärand
An overview of all the 1,973 songs that have appeared in seventy Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian national song celebration programmes from 1869 to the present day reveals a richly innovative, creative tradition: in each of the three festival repertoires, 74–84 percent of the songs were performed only once over the entire history of the national celebrations. When concert participants choose to repeat songs sung in previous years, they identify …
Cornelius Hasselblatt, Kalevipoeg studies
Music during the Occupation
Scholars of World War II in the Baltic will embrace this 695-page survey of musical life in Latvia under Soviet (1940–1941) and Nazi (1941–1945) occupation. Far too little has been written. Histori
The Power of Song
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action. More than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs are translated and interpreted in poetic, cultural, and historical context. Watch the trailer: http://www.…
Power of Song
Baltic Studies in North America
National Heroic Narratives in the Baltics as a Source for Nonviolent Political Action
The national heroes of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania that emerged in literary culture during the nineteenth century were warrior heroes. In the twentieth century, a series of interpretations and adaptations by leading authors disarmed and desacralized Kalevipoeg, Bearslayer (Lāčplēsis), and King Mindaugas, tempering or rejecting their violent actions and recasting these central allegories of national myth into a nonviolent mold. These heroes are…
Notes on the Latvian National Hero, L??pl?sis
My initial interest when I read the title of Sergei Kruks' article, The Latvian Epic Ladplesis: Passe-partout Ideology, Traumatic Imagination of Community, about the Latvian and Estonian national epics (JFR 41/1:1-32) was quickly followed by disappointment: the article inaccurately retells the content of the Latvian epic; it omits passages that contradict its arguments; it alludes to content that does not exist in the epic; it interprets excerpts…
Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale
Surematu Kalevipoeg
Lettische Volksmarchen
Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs
The Power of Song
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action. More than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs are translated and interpreted in poetic, cultural, and historical context. Watch the trailer: http://www.…
National Heroic Narratives in the Baltics as a Source for Nonviolent Political Action
The national heroes of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania that emerged in literary culture during the nineteenth century were warrior heroes. In the twentieth century, a series of interpretations and adaptations by leading authors disarmed and desacralized Kalevipoeg, Bearslayer (Lāčplēsis), and King Mindaugas, tempering or rejecting their violent actions and recasting these central allegories of national myth into a nonviolent mold. These heroes are…
Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs
Lettische Volksmarchen
Surematu Kalevipoeg
Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale
Notes on the Latvian National Hero, L??pl?sis
My initial interest when I read the title of Sergei Kruks' article, The Latvian Epic Ladplesis: Passe-partout Ideology, Traumatic Imagination of Community, about the Latvian and Estonian national epics (JFR 41/1:1-32) was quickly followed by disappointment: the article inaccurately retells the content of the Latvian epic; it omits passages that contradict its arguments; it alludes to content that does not exist in the epic; it interprets excerpts…
Baltic Studies in North America
National Heroic Narratives in the Baltics as a Source for Nonviolent Political Action
The national heroes of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania that emerged in literary culture during the nineteenth century were warrior heroes. In the twentieth century, a series of interpretations and adaptations by leading authors disarmed and desacralized Kalevipoeg, Bearslayer (Lāčplēsis), and King Mindaugas, tempering or rejecting their violent actions and recasting these central allegories of national myth into a nonviolent mold. These heroes are…
Power of Song
Music during the Occupation
Scholars of World War II in the Baltic will embrace this 695-page survey of musical life in Latvia under Soviet (1940–1941) and Nazi (1941–1945) occupation. Far too little has been written. Histori
The Power of Song
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action. More than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs are translated and interpreted in poetic, cultural, and historical context. Watch the trailer: http://www.…
Baltimaade üldlaulupidude laulutraditsioonid ja pärand
An overview of all the 1,973 songs that have appeared in seventy Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian national song celebration programmes from 1869 to the present day reveals a richly innovative, creative tradition: in each of the three festival repertoires, 74–84 percent of the songs were performed only once over the entire history of the national celebrations. When concert participants choose to repeat songs sung in previous years, they identify …
Cornelius Hasselblatt, Kalevipoeg studies
The Storytelling Human
Kristin Kuutma (1959–2025)
Art (9 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)