National Dimensions of Cultural and Artistic Heritage of Odesa in Relation to the Ukrainian Centre and East

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the ethnic-national content of the cultural and artistic heritage of Odesa, taking into account its polyethnic-polynational status of the city and the cultural dominance of the Ukrainian-Slavic factor due to its military-expansive genesis. The methodological basis is the artistic indicators of the intonation concept in the traditions of the school of B. Asafyev in Ukraine, presented in the works of the authors of this study, as well as in the works of D. Androsova, O. Muravska, O. Roshchenko, I. Shevchuk, among others. Special attention is paid to the biographical and descriptive method, evidenced in the research of V. Shulhina and O. Yakovlev. The scientific novelty of the study is based on the selection of regional features of Ukrainian culture, with an emphasis in this case on the multi-national and poly-ethnic content of the South of Ukraine, which allows us to emphasise the conclusions about a certain plurality of representations of outstanding masters involved in the Ukrainian cultural aura – and this applies to the characteristics of such outstanding personalities as K. Szymanovskyi, V. Malyshevskyi, S. Richter, H. Neuhaus. Conclusions. The specificity of Odesa and the Ukrainian South in general is marked by intersections of national-ethnic and religious beliefs, covering numerous family-family relations, despite the fact that the ethnic core was a Slavic-Ukrainian fusion of Russian-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian combinations, and the participation of Germans and other national inclusions was significant. Stormy social vicissitudes corrected the life path of many natives from the cultural environment of Odesa and the Ukrainian South in general, who later found themselves in other national and cultural dimensions, without losing the cultural "charge" received in the "small homeland" of the regional southern Ukrainian destination. And vice versa, being born and released into the art world outside of Ukraine, they organically later "fit" into the cultural space of Odesa and the South of Ukraine in general. Therefore, we introduce clarifications in the characteristics of national belonging (in the mental and cultural sense) in relation to the following authors: V. Malyshevskyi – Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish composer, K. Szymanovskyi – Polish, Ukrainian composer, V. Rebikov – Ukrainian, Russian composer and theorist, S. Richter, G. Neuhaus – Ukrainian, Russian pianists, in analogy to the duality of Ukrainian – Russian artists in relation to M. Vrubel, V. Kandinskyi, M. Roslavets.