Keywords
tragedy
uncompromising
nobility
worldview paradoxes
music
Ukrainian culture
cultural code
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Abstract
The figure of the composer A. Biloshytskyi, his creative and life path, is presented beyond the methodological approach, which was standardized in Soviet times and which to this day has a rather great influence on scientific research in the Ukrainian humanities, including art history, in particular musicology. The culturological approach as a synthesis of modern (XX–XXI centuries) methodologies based on historical and worldview (East-West, today also South-North) and philosophical and ideological (phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, hermeneutics, synergetics, etc.) provided an opportunity to specify the well-known and stable characteristics of the creative heritage of the original representative of the national musical culture: tragedy, romanticism, originality and others. The study is based on scientific and biographical materials, as well as on the author’s own memories of communication with Anatoliy Biloshytskyi and correspondence with him. It is proposed to legalize the assumption as a hypothesis regarding the interpretation of A. Biloshytskyi’s worldview is the embodiment of the tragedy of cultural paradoxes in the form of dialectical contradictions of culture as being. This applies to both creativity and life itself, united by a special attitude to music as an ideal embodiment of the human. organizational. The paradoxes were the clash of his moral guidelines and the factuality of life, his understanding of romanticism and the true meaning of this direction of thought, the combination of pagan and Christian, and others. An attempt is made to explain some features of Russian culture from the standpoint of substantiating its provincialism and at the same time, artificially and forcibly imposed influence on Ukrainian culture.
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