Chikalo O. Songs-chronicles: a dynamics of a genre.

Тhe dissertation is one of the attempts in complex research in a genre of songs-chronicles as a unity of a form and a content: it's dynamics are examinated at thematic and structure-semantics level in this work. It is being accented on songs-chronicles' peculiarity, which is displayed in functionality, structure, semantics and elements of poetic expressing. The co-relation between the functional links of these song compositions and the family mode, between social and historical life of a nation have been studied. They are fully and organic realized in structure and semantics of songs-chronicles. The peculiarity of this dissertation is to display and clearly research the motives - structural components of a plot, that play constractive, dynamic, semantic and productive functions in songs-chronicles. It is first enlisted material concerning the national-liberating thematic of the XX century, which have been under taboo.