The main objective of this study is the substantiation of experiment as
one of the key features of the world music in Ukraine. Based on the creative
works of the brightest world music representatives in Ukraine, «Dakha
Brakha» band, the experiment is regarded as a kind of creative setting.
Methodology and scientific approaches. The methodology was based on
the music practice theory by T. Cherednychenko. The author distinguishes
four binary oppositions, which can describe the musical practice. According
to one of these oppositions («observance of the canon or violation of the
canon»), the musical practices, to which the Ukrainian musicology usually
classifies the world music («folk music» and «minstrel music»), are compared
with the creative work of «Dakha Brakha» band.
Study findings. A lack of the setting to experiment in the musical
practices of the «folk music» and «minstrel music» separates the world music
musical practice from them. Therefore, the world music is a separate type of
musical practice in which the experiment is crucial.
The study analyzed several scientific articles of Ukrainian musicologists
on the world music; examined the history of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha»
band; presented a list of the folk songs used in the fifth album «The Road» by
«Dakha Brakha» band; and showed the degree of the source transformation
by musicians based on the example of the «Monk» song. The study findings
can be used to form a comprehensive understanding of the world music
musical practice. The further studies may be related to clarification of the other parameters of the world music musical practice, and to determination
of the experiment role in creative works of the other world music
representatives, both Ukrainian and foreign.
The practical study value is the ability to use its key provisions in the
course of modern music in higher artistic schools of Ukraine.
Originality / value. So far, the Ukrainian musicology did not consider the
experiment role as the key one in the world music.