Song Folklore as a Basic Component to Form the National and Cultural Residence Area of Ukrainians

Abstract

The author proposes the theory that the national and cultural habitat of Ukrainians is determined by musical and folklore sources. It is noted that the scientific analysis of folklore expresses the subject's world picture and the system of his sociocultural orientations, provides an opportunity to understand the transformation and historical sociodynamics, to determine the main system-forming meanings of culture and national culture in particular. Attention is focused on the cultural understanding of the essential content of the categories "national-cultural space", "folklore" and "musical folklore" as a type of folk artistic culture, which is based on the ethnicnational picture of the world. It was found that, gaining experience, the nation creates its own history, which is filled with its own unique meanings, inherent exclusively to its field of culture, which is characterized by certain values and special rules of interpretation. Musical folklore as some national modus in the traditional culture of Ukrainians forms the value and behavioral guidelines of the representatives of this community. The national-ethnic picture of the worldview and understanding of the meaning of being is defined as a single cognitive orientation, which is a non-verbal, implicit expression of understanding by members of each society of the "rules of life" determined by social, natural and supernatural forces. Ukrainian musical folklore is characterized as a type of culture that expresses the national picture of the world structure and the valuenormative system of people's life, the national-cultural habitat of Ukrainians. The picture of the world is considered as a representation of the surrounding reality, a feature of its perception, which is determined by the unity of subjective and objective conditions and factors of the formation of the national-cultural landscape. The significance of the musical and folklore concept in the formation of the main value orientations of the Ukrainian nation has been proven. Attention is drawn to the scientific rethinking of the content of traditional concepts of cultural creation in the context of its national mode. An art-critic analysis of the musical-folkloric component in the rituals of Ukrainians is presented.