MUSIC AND SONG CREATIVITY OF VOLYN INHABITANTS IN THE 20–30S OF THE XXTH CENTURY AS AN INTEGRAL AND ORIGINAL COMPONENT OF THE ALL-UKRAINIAN AND EUROPEAN CULTURAL SPACE

Abstract

At the beginning of the XXI century scientific discourses on political, economic and cultural problems of development of the Volyn region at a time when Volyn together with other western Ukrainian lands as a result of the conclusion of the peace treaty on March 18, 1921 in Riga,. were included in the Polish state. This fully applies to the musical and song creativity of the people of Volyn, as in Ukrainian historiography this issue is traditionally given much less attention than the study of party-political and socio-economic processes. Interwar Volynia was a polyethnic region, where active ethnocultural contacts took place between representatives of various communities and ethnic groups – Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Germans, Jews, Russians and others. Under difficult socio-political conditions, they developed their artistic life, which became an integral, distinctive component of the all-Ukrainian and European cultural space. The study of this phenomenon is actualized and intensified at the present stage both in connection with the processes of globalization and integration of Ukraine into the world cultural space, strengthening cultural ties between peoples, and for the sake of expression, deepening ideas about the cultural development of Ukraine in general historical retrospect and in the regional dimension in particular. The article focuses on the return and rethinking of forgotten, little-known, falsified pages of cultural history and names of cultural figures, which is an important prerequisite for restoring historical memory and forming national identity as factors in the development of civic education, political culture, civil society and of the entire national statehood of Ukraine.