Chernova I. Musical performance in the situation of postmodernism.

The thesis is dedicated to the complex survey of metamorphoses, occurring in the academical instrumental performance art in the situation of postmodernism. The main objective of the research is studying the transformation process of the musical performance art in the innovative paradigm of the culture of the 20th century. Inclusive sense of postmodernism was detected and universalistic features of musical performance representations in the art milieu of postmodernism were outlined. as a result of studying the postmodernism - a global crisis existence situation in the culture of the last third of the previous century; analysis of play phenomenon in the instrumental theatre of postmodernism, projection of style idioms of the modern and determination of the novel features in the performance poetics of modernism.