Suprun O. The art of jazz as a form of intercultural music interaction

The dissertation is dedicated to the research of jazz as a form of intercultural interaction. The paper offers an integral approach, which unites socio-cultural and musicological studies. Socio-cultural aspect is examined through communicative quali-ties of jazz and through the demonstration of changing stages of its main functions - applied, entertaining, cognitive. Musicological analysis identifies different cultural sources of jazz and their amalgamation. Intercultural musical interaction has been revealed on the basis of the jazz genre at the time of its formation (Аfrican-American and European-American roots) and on the basis of the connections between jazz and European academic tradition. The dynamics of this process is reviewed in the works of academic composers and Ameri-can, European, Russian and Ukrainian jazz musicians. The paper offers step by step analysis of some traditional and contemporary style examples.