| Description |
As it happens, Skaņumāja, a small non-governmental organization, has emerged as the current leader in submissions to the Latvian National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Despite the extensive work that has been invested in writing these submissions, this was never the organization’s goal. It was rather our members’ interest in the practice of folklore and traditional music that gradually led to the evolution of deeper interest in Latvia’s waning instrumental musical traditions. This has now become our organization’s most important goal—what was once a hobby has become our principal mission. These non-classical instrumental traditions offer a wealth of material capable of diversifying the cultural landscape while also serving as resources for a range of cultural, extra-curricular, special, and lifelong educational, social work, and leisure and tourism-related production, all the while averting the loss of unique musical instruments, repertoires, and techniques. |
