Chervenko O. Local specificity of Bulgarians folklore songs in Northern Pryazovye.

The thesis is the first attempt of comprehensive research of preservation and functioning of the ethnic Bulgarian folk poetic art in Northern Pryazovye. The local specificity of different genres of folklore has been defined. It has represented the general picture of Historiography of regional collecting and scientific studies in modern Slavic folklore and in the Humanities. The factual material, collected by the author in Zaporizhzhya region and in Berdyansk, has allowed to analyze the present state and the dynamic of genre composition of song folklore. The peculiarities of productive formation and existence of particular genres as well as the transformation of others have been established. The number of little-known and unpublished archival sources, such as records of Bulgarian folk songs of Pryazovye in the 20-30-th years of the XX-th century that were collected by the Ukrainian folklorist-musicologists K. Kvitka and M. P. Gaiday, has been introduced in the scientific studies by the author. Special attention has been paid to the problems of folklore of modern ethnic festivals and repertoire of folk Bulgarian groups in Northern Pryazovye.