Kuz'menko O. Riflemen's songs (aspects of folklorizm, folklorization and folklority).

The thesis is dedicated to the research of riflemen songs with a folkloristic approach. First of all it characterizes the inner connection between their most important phenomena: folklorism, folklorization, folklority. The work ascertains the specific features of folklorism, elucidated the laboratory of folklorization of riflemen songs, distinctly defines diachronical stages and spheres of functioning. The thesis analytically confirms the genetic connection between the folklorizational and folklore-creational processes, reveal sequences in developement of the above mentioned genre group, its ability to remain preserved and its peculiarities of entering the all-Ukrainian folklore context.