Features of forming the repertoire of the ukrainian music and drama theatre in the context of a nation-building (of the late XIX – beginning of the XX century)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is devoted to the study of the features of forming a multi-genre repertoire of Ukrainian music and drama theatre in the context of nation-building in the multicultural conditions of the Russian empires in the late XIX – beginning of the XX centuries. The methodology of the study consists of the application of historical-cultural, analytical, systematic, art-scientific methods, which provide an opportunity to study the specifics of the constitution of multi-genre principles of the repertoire in the context of nation-building. The scientific novelty of the work consists in the study of nation-building specifics of the repertoire of the Ukrainian music and drama theatre and the determination of its role in the process of establishment and ethnic self-identification of the Ukrainian nation in the late XIX – beginning XX centuries. Conclusions. During the imperial colonization of culture, the prominent theatre artists focused their activities on preserving ethnocultural identity, consolidated around the creation of a national repertoire of different genres, which professed and presented traditions, worldview values, spiritual culture of Ukrainians, contributed to the national self-affirmation, the preservation of cultural identity.

Key words: Ukrainian music and drama theatre, nation-building, traditions, national repertoire.