Boiko A. Variety vocal art of China in the context of historical, cultural and genre-style processes

The thesis is dedicated to identifying the historical and genre-style specificity of establishment and development of variety vocal art in China throughout XX – early XXI cen. Significance of the chosen topic is based upon advanced achievements of Chinese variety vocal art, its great popularity in modern worldwide culture space and, in fact, lack of studies of it in Ukrainian musical sciences. The object of this research is China’s musical culture of XX – early XXI cen. The subject of research is Chinese variety vocal art in the context of historical, cultural and genre-style processes. The character of genre-style processes’ reflection in development of vocal variety in XX – early XXI cen. in the works of Chinese artists was uncovered. Specificity of the mass song genre and its embodiment in Chinese variety art of XXI cen. was highlighted. Characteristic features of the classical crossover style’s development in modern variety vocal performance art, particularly in Ukrainian and Chinese, were uncovered.