Olena Berehova, ‘Dialoh kul’tur: obraz inshoho v muzychnomu universumi’ [Dialogue of Cultures: The Image of the Other in the Musical Universe], Kyiv 2020

Abstract

Olena Berehova’s monograph Dialoh kul’tur: obraz inshoho v muzychnomu universumi [Dialogue of Cultures: The Image of the Other in the Musical Universe] was written within the theme of basic re- search of the Institute of Cultural Studies of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine 'Dialogue of Cultures in Postmodernity: Dynamics of Self-Organization and Globalization Challenges'. In the book, for the first time in Ukrainian culturology, an attempt is made to scientifically comprehend the dialogue of cultures through the prism of an imagological approach. The analytical material of the monograph was the latest Ukrainian composers’ creativity, as well as the best examples of contemporary world music, which are panoramic in the main musical genres (opera, ballet, symphony, vocal and choral, chamber music) and create a broad intertextual and dialogical context. In the monograph on the example of specific art cases it is proved that the imagological approach makes possible the study of artistic images objectified in works of art, revealing the specifics of figurative perception of 'Other' by different cultures, revealing the ideas of cultural dialogue about each other.

Keywords

• Ukrainian music
• contemporary music
• traditional music
• cultural studies
• post-colonial studies