THE HISTORY AND MODERNITY OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN WESTERN UKRAINE: ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL APPROACH

Анотація

The article, which is based on the archival materials, published works of Ukrainian and foreign scholars as well as the author’s personal fieldwork, is dedicated to the study of ethnic minorities in Ukraine (specifically in its Western region), and their musical life as one of the most important means of expressing their identity. The article gives an overview of those ethnic minorities that have resided on the Ukrainian lands hundreds of years ago and that are still present on Ukrainian territory, as well as those that came to Ukraine recently. It studies the role of the festivals of ethnic minorities in Lviv, as well as the cultural centers where people from different ethnic groups get to meet and express their identity musically.
The article pays special attention to the fundamental role of the pioneers of Ukrainian ethnomusicology in the field of ethnic minority studies, among them Klyment Kvitka, Mykhaylo Hayday, Moysei Beregovskyj.