Personal Texts of Vocal Cultural Figures in the Artistic Environment of Ukraine in 1950-1970

Abstract

The article examines the personal texts of Ukrainian vocal artists of the second half of the 20th century. The personal text of culture exists in the discursive field of similar texts, and the intertextual connections generated by them (features, factors, components, etc.) reveal the patterns of cultural development. Thanks to this process, research perspectives are actualized, as in our case - artistic and sociohistorical discoursing in the mega-description of Ukrainian culture of the second half of the 20th century. The article reveals genre-species nature and specificity of the personal text of memoir, which in our understanding is a written cultural and historical source that reflects the personal perception of events having happened or are about to happen, and fixes them on a documentary-subjective level in a variety of artistic forms, artistic and documentary generalizations taking into account the experience and social and communicative connections of the author. Introduction of personal texts of vocal culture figures of 1950-1970 - B. Hmyra, B. Hnyd, L. Lobanova, E. Miroshnychenko, K. Ognevoy, and K. Radchenko in the cultural-historical context, as a fixed result of spiritual and practical activities of masters of academic singing, is of great importance for the formation of vocal history of Ukraine. These sources, many of which were presented for the first time in the study, are a micromodel of creative life in its real development, ignoring which leads to loss of spiritual integrity, imbalance of change and preservation of cultural heritage. Personal texts of figures of Ukrainian vocal culture of the 1950s and 1970s are often realized on the border between what is allowed and taboos in the cultural paradigm of vulgar sociology. Emerging in the field of view of the researcher after the author's death, they are deprived of the official form of printed publications of a similar type, in which the facts of culture have always been considered through the context of official cultural doctrine.