Ukrainian Musical Modernism: Prerequisites for Conceptualization

Abstract

The article outlines the current cultural situation surrounding the issue of Ukrainian musical modernism, presenting examples of actualization of this issue in the national musical practice of recent years. The author considers the initiatives of Oleksiy Shmurak and Leah Batstone, the researchers who explore this issue. The article engages with Myroslava Novakovych’s substantive provisions on the scholarly interpretation of the concept of Ukrainian musical modernism, the defining features of its aesthetics and the circle of its representatives. The author identifies a number of prerequisites for the conceptualization of Ukrainian musical modernism in concerts, performances, public lectures, educational activities, and research projects. Building on her own concept of musical modernism, the author offers an original view of the phenomenon of Ukrainian musical modernism as an epoch, defines its chronological boundaries and specific factors. The article characterizes the correlation between modernism and social realism in the Ukrainian musical culture of the twentieth century.