THE EVOLUTION OF SOUND RECORDING IN UKRAINIAN CULTURE: PRESERVING THE NATIONAL CREATIVE HERITAGE FOR THE GENERATIONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to study, generalize and unify the historical processes of Ukrainian audio recording, covering the late ХІХ–ХХ and the first two decades of the ХХІ century. The main concept of the experiment is to identify prerogative identities and differences in value cultural dominants among the masters of the national “professional” and “amateur” musical art, as a justification for covering the historiographical process in the formation of the national discography. According to the presented analysis, the nature of changes in audio culture from 1900 to 1941 was influenced by further scientific and creative and practical concepts implemented during the Soviet totalitarianism and reflected in the positions of musicology of the late twentieth and early ХХІ centuries. A key factor in the study of audiovisual art is the tradition of preserving the creative audio heritage of Ukraine for future generations of the nation – young scientists and contemporaries of the music and audiovisual arts. These models are implemented in the main concept of developing the issues for further theoretical and empirical actions, secularized methods, and artistic principles of national culture to interact with Western European music in the context of changes to current socio-political events. Research methodology is focuses on identifying empirical forms traced through statistical development and the role of musical culture at the intersection of the late ХІХ–ХХ and early ХХІ centuries, describing a model of a mechanical method of recording the phenomenon of recording the sound of vocal and instrumental works. The theoretical basis is expressed as an element of a systematic analysis of the improvement of the audiovisual art of Ukrainian song in the early ХХ and first quarter of the ХХІ centuries; the foundations of specific sociological directions explain the value of Ukrainian melody for different segments of the population, in particular, different age categories, aesthetic and ethical tastes and preferences, and views according to the philosophy of art, which influenced the identification of national and cultural identity. Scientific novelty is characterized by the role of the evolution of audiovisual art as a conceptual element of the value dominants of the Ukrainian cultural space, which is a key mechanism for shaping the affiliation of Ukrainian song to the European traditions of the ХХ and ХХІ centuries. The main vector of the study is aimed at implementing scientific and creative systems for the introduction and popularization of national melas not only from the regional position of the state (Independent Ukraine), but also in the world (American and European) diasporas, where leading cultural studies and musicology researchers have been conducting studies. Conclusions. Ukrainian sound recording as a cultural and technological process is quite controversial and complex. The industrialization of society led to certain actions on the part of the technogenic factor, which influenced the development of audiovisual art. The first artistic (author’s) ideas were created long before the invention of digital sound recording devices. The audio recording mechanisms introduced into the field of art in the 1890s became the basis for the collection of stock works of Ukrainian culture as a historiographical excursion into the past. Thanks to the preserved archives, the contemporaries of the ХХІ century have the opportunity to learn the target value of the national historical era of the ХХ century, which was reflected in the artistic environment. However, the information and essays describing certain creative events are rather superficial in terms of scientific positions. The lack of coverage and limited research of artistic and creative material provokes further problems that may lead to the loss of the national identity of Ukrainian art among other cultures of the ХХ century, in comparison and opposition to Russian art. Nevertheless, the careful observation of future musicologists and the use of wide areas of Internet resources contribute to the achievement of a deeper development of the identified issues, which will affect the future processes of improving Ukrainian audio recording.