Obukh L. The Leading Trends of the Music Education of Western Diaspora (the beginning XX-XXI century).

The thesis is devoted to the culturological study of the development and formation of the Ukrainian music education of western diaspora at the beginning of ХХ-ХХІ centuries. The paper presents Ukrainian music education of western diaspora as a part of the national musical culture in the context of the world cultural development. The major trends of the Ukrainian music education in the environment of western emigration are researched; the structure is established, the organization, the content and forms of Ukrainian educational institutions are highlighted; the cultural and educational centers of musical diaspora's activity and its specificity are indicated; the contribution of individual figures of musical diaspora's culture into Ukrainian music education is characterized (described).