Ukrainian folk choral art as a dynamic socio-cultural phenomenon: cultural aspects of conceptualization

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to substantiate and describe in a cultural dimension the concept of Ukrainian folk choral art as an integral component of Ukrainian folk artistic culture and to develop theoretical dominants regarding the specifics of its functioning as a dynamic socio-cultural phenomenon. The research methodology is based on the principles of cultural, historical, logical, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches, the application of methods of analysis, synthesis, and generalization, which made it possible to conceptualize in the context of cultural knowledge Ukrainian folk choral art as an integral component of the national folk art culture and a dynamic sociocultural phenomenon. The scientific novelty consists in the justification, description and conceptualization in the cultural dimension of the concept of Ukrainian folk choral art as a dynamic socio-cultural phenomenon of Ukrainian folk artistic culture. Conceptualized is the idea that Ukrainian folk choral art, as an integral component of Ukrainian folk artistic culture, actively responds to changes occurring in all spheres of society; involving people in the energetic vital process of creativity and communication, reflects these processes in the cultural and artistic work, thereby representing the national communicative and content-creating cultural component of a dynamic socio-cultural phenomenon. Conclusion. In the modern conditions of socio-cultural reality, conceptualization in the context of cultural knowledge of Ukrainian folk choral art, its procedural and dialogic understanding as a dynamic socio-cultural phenomenon of Ukrainian folk artistic culture is considered relevant. Ukrainian folk choral performance, dynamically responding to changes occurring in all spheres of society, reflecting them in cultural and artistic work, involving people in the active process of creativity and communication, manifests the national communicative and content-creating cultural component of the phenomenon, which preserves the ethno-cultural archetypes of folk traditions in multivariate sociocultural continuum. Ukrainian folk choral art, erasing spatial and temporal boundaries, generates the potential of Ukrainian folk artistic culture, plays an important role in the further development of national culture.

Key words: Ukrainian folk art culture, Ukrainian folk choral art, choir, choir functioning, choral performance, traditional performance, singing tradition, sociocultural phenomenon