Leontyeva O. The Choir Art of the Dnipropetrovsk Region in the Context of a Ukrainian Culture of the Second Half of the XXth - the Beginning of the XXIth Century

The thesis is a completed scientific research in which the comprehensive analyses of the choir art of the Dnipropetrovsk region of the second half of the XXth - the beginning of XXIth century is made. It defines the concept of a "regional culture" and suggests the definition of a "regional choir school" in the context of the problem of a correlation of universal and local in the process of formation of a regional artistic and cultural concentration. On the base of archaic and periodical publications the social and cultural backgrounds of the formation and the development of the Dnipropetrovsk choir culture were identified. The amateur and professional choir performing of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the context of Ukrainian tendencies is characterized. The socio-cultural conditions of the functioning of the Dnipropetrovsk choir art of the second half of the XXth - the beginning of XXIth century in the aspect of historical experience of composing, performing, educational and choir practice are defined. The new sources of the history of the Dnipropetrovsk choir culture were introduced.