ROCK MUSIC FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: HISTORICAL AND STYLISTIC LANDMARKS
ROCK MUSIC FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: HISTORICAL AND STYLISTIC LANDMARKS

Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to the evolution of rock music from the Republic of Moldova, starting with the first examples of Moldovan rock in the second half of the 1960s - the beginning of the 1970s, realized in the creation of the ”Noroc” group, andending with the latest achievements of the national rock music of the 2020s (”Zdob&Zdub”). The specifics of each stage of the development of Moldovan rock music are formulated, being divided into the Soviet period (the 1970s - 1980s), the transition period in the 1990s, and the first decade of the 21st century. On the basis of the theory of four semantic codes of rock culture– the verbal code, the non-verbal code, the spatial code, and the temporal code, the author is reforming this concept by combining four codes into two, based on their ontological and epistemological features (verbal – non-verbal and spatial – temporal). Taking into account the features of the semantic codes the following stylistic directions are identified. A stylistic system specificto Moldovan rock music is proposed, which reveals ”lyrical rock”(the 1970s-1980s), “intellectual rock”(the 1990) and “neo-archaic rock” of the first decades of the 21 st century.

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