UKRAINIAN MUSIC FESTIVALS OF THE LATE 1980S AS PRESENTS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HARBINGERS IN UKRAINIAN

Abstract

This article is dedicated to iconic musical events that demonstrated the mood of the Ukrainian community at the end of the 80s – the desire for freedom and independence and predicted socio-political changes in Ukraine. These are two famous Ukrainian festivals «Oberig» and «Chervona Ruta», which performed an important state-building function in Ukraine, formed a modern pop youth school of national music, helped to develop a new vision of modern Ukrainian culture with the aim of integrating it into the world cultural space. The purpose of the article: to determine the role of the Ukrainian festivals "Oberig" and "Chervona Ruta" in the establishment of national- patriotic ideas as harbingers of socio-political changes in Ukraine and to outline the genre-stylistic features of their musical content. Due to the fact that in the reference and musicological literature there are contradictory definitions of the features of the genres of "author's bardic song" and "sung poetry", a comprehensive understanding of these genre varieties, which were declared in the full name of the festival "Oberig", was carried out, and their stylistic features were determined. The author gives the author gives his interpretation of these phenomena, defining them as two genre varieties of bardic art, which are close in existence, but each of which has its own genre features: "author's bardic song" was created on Ukrainian-language texts by the performers themselves, and «sung poetry» – on verses by Ukrainian poets or interpretations of folk songs. The purpose of the festivals was the popularization of modern Ukrainian music, the search for and support of talented performers in the genres of «author's bard song» and «sung poetry», the presentation of the musical heritage of the past and present liberation struggles of the Ukrainian people, the involvement of Ukrainian youth in the formation of patriotic consciousness by means of Ukrainian mass music, the formation the image of a strong and indomitable European nation with deep historical and cultural traditions, etc. The history of their creation was described, the thematic orientation and features of genre varieties of festival musical compositions were analyzed.