Tormkhova V. Ukrainian popular music and folklore: interosculation and synthesis.

The dissertation is devoted to the analysis of various forms of interfusion and synthesis of authentic folklore and popular musical culture of Ukraine (rock, pop, jazz). The author considers the basic concepts connected with musical styles which make popular, mass music, history of occurrence and development of popular music (pop, rock musics and a jazz), and features of modern popular music in Ukraine. Values of synthesis and interfusion of folklore and popular music, as a result of global tendencies of World Music, and the general tendency of globalization in popular music are investigated. In this work characteristic features of folklore, which are used in the Ukrainian variety music are described. The basic typological characteristics of synthesis of folklore and a popular music are developed. It is possible to allocate the four versions of interfusion: 1) arrangement of national songs; 2) citing of musical-folklore material; 3) creation of original compositions on a folklore based (intonations, scales, texts, methods of playing); 4) a mixture of a ukrainian national manner of playing, with manner of playing of folk music of other countries (is applied in a jazz, pop).