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Культурний простір міста як середовищe реалізації музичної культури
The cultural space of the city as a environment for the realization of musical culture

Author(s): Taras Hryhorchuk, Alexander Tadlia
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Music, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: city culture; musical culture; urban musical culture; cultural space;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article. Establishment of the main factors of urban music culture as a particular direction of the evolution of the socio-cultural environment of cities through demonstrating the public's attitude to music, the desire to listen to it, to play music, to perform composing activities that will be best perceived by the city public. The methodology of the study is the principles of dialectics, systemic, socio-cultural, and historical approaches, fundamental provisions of the theory of culture. The general scientific and interdisciplinary research methods are used: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparison. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is to identify the characteristic features of urban music culture that distinguish it from other manifestations of musical culture; providing characteristics of the cultural space of the city as an environment for the realization of urban musical culture; determining the place of the script approach in the life of the representatives of urban music culture. Conclusions. Urban music culture is a complex and multi-vector phenomenon that characterizes the realization of music culture in the form of creating, performing, and listening to music in an urban environment. It demonstrates the attitude of members of the urban community to music, and its role in the life and evolution of the urban social and cultural environment, demonstrates a public interest in its manifestations through a desire to listen to music, to make music, or to produce works that are well received by the urban society. The realization of the city's musical culture, its embodiment occurs by performing its basic functions, among which the most important are: axiological, cognitive, educational, communicative, semiotic, relaxation.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 97-102
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Ukrainian