СREATIVITY OF UKRAINIAN COMPOSERS IN RADIO AND JOURNALISM MATERIALS OF THE ARCHIVE OF THE UKRAINIAN FREE UNIVERSITY (MUNICH, GERMANY)

Abstract

The purpose of the proposed study is to analyze the thematic and substantive content of radio programs dedicated to the founders of Ukrainian music, which are in the archive of the Ukrainian Free University (Munich, Germany), and to introduce their semantic discourse into the scientific turnover of the national cultural space of Ukraine. The following methods were applied in the study: descriptive – to reveal the musical and communicative textual materials of radio broadcasts; biographical – to analyze the little-known pages of the life of the founders of Ukrainian music; classification and typology – to characterize the genre features of radio broadcasts; content analysis – to reveal the ideological and conceptual content of radio programs; the method of systematizationю – used to summarize the results of the study, formulate conclusions. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that for the first time, the content of radio broadcasts about Ukrainian composers on Radio «Svoboda» of the late XX century is characterized, the records of which were transferred by the editors to the audio funds of the record library of the Ukrainian Free University; for the first time, interviews with leading figures of the Ukrainian diaspora are analyzed, and musical illustrative material is recorded, the performers of which were choral groups and outstanding Ukrainian artists who presented our national art in the world’s multicultural environment. In general, the radio programs of Radio «Svoboda», which covered the life works of Ukrainian music coryphées, in particular, Mykola Lysenko, Stanislav Liudkevych, Nestor Nyzhankivskyi, Antin Rudnytskyi, Borys Kudryk have significant scientific value for the study of both the sociocultural space of Ukrainian contemporary national environment of Ukraine, as they prove the high professional level of our musical art in the world and broadcast the national idea declared in the radio recordings in the present hardest times of the Russian-Ukrainian war.