The creativity of local accordionists in the context of pop-jazz performance at the turn of the XX - XXI centuries

The purpose of the article. To highlight the peculiarities of the functioning of pop-jazz music in the bayan-accordion art of Ukraine in a certain period. The methodology is based on the basic principles of the theory of knowledge, such as objectivity, scientific character, historicism, integrity, interconnection, and interdependence of phenomena and processes of reality, as well as conceptual provisions of the theory of professional skills. The scientific novelty lies in the coverage of the creative activity of local button accordion players and the systematization of the stages of development and creative achievements of the academic school of the specified period. Conclusions. Pop-jazz music in the context of performing creativity of local and foreign bayan accordionists has a consistent character and develops on the musical basis of Negro folklore, urban culture (genres of everyday dance music - waltzes, polkas, tango, foxtrots, etc.), professional music - improvisations, concert transcriptions, retro suites for jazz themes, jazz-style suites, jazz-rock-partitas). The main factors that influenced the dynamics of the development of pop-jazz music in the bayan-accordion art of Ukraine and abroad were various artistic processes that took place during the period under study, determined by the evolution of quality indicators. Keywords: button accordion (accordion), accompanying instrument, solo performance, jazz compositions, composer technique, academization. .

Exploring the Promotion Path of Urban Reading from the Perspective of Urban Cultural Soft Power

As a form of urban culture, urban reading plays an important role in the improvement of the citizens’ quality, urban quality, and urban spirit. In the new era, there are imbalances in the supply and demand, content construction, regional structure, and ecological structure of urban reading. It is necessary to analyze and grasp its development trend, optimize the development path of urban reading, and promote the improvement of urban cultural soft power.

Linguistic Identity: Between Multilingualism and Language Hegemony

Summary A priori accepting multilingualism as a value, we must understand that it is not permanent. It is empowered by our mother tongue, which creates an essential opportunity as well as a precondition for the acquisition of competences of other languages. However, the language itself, being a tradition, i.e., a living process, is affected by other languages, so the identity of a language cannot be understood without an understanding of its curriculum vitae. The historical path of the Lithuanian language comes from the world of multilingualism. Urban life in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is unimaginable without the people speaking Polish, Belarusian, Ruthenian, Latin and Yiddish. Real multilingualism did not separate people into “us” and “other; this phenomenon emerged later, after some centuries, with the disappearance of urban multilingualism in the urban culture and manifesting as a certain opposition against the “others’, as efforts to create a natural for many people identity-divide which has impact and unities on the basis of a language. In the multilingual world the perception prevailed that we are all “us” but different. The real, conversational and every day multilingualism enabled the dissemination of contextual meaning, reception of different thinking and nuances of a global outlook rather than only communicating information. The emergence of one, the most important and rational, “global” language hegemony determines a new communication which does not require the competence of several languages (even the knowledge of the neighbors’ language), as communication proceeds through a certain mediator and in the long turn embraces various areas of life. However, bilingualism is not the final result; the hegemonic language trespasses the boundaries of the purpose of the lingua franca and aims at overtaking the functions of the native language. So, what is the role and destiny of the latter? This is what the study aimed at discovering.

Transformation of traditional culture of the rural population of Galicia (20s–30s of the xx century)

The article analyzes the influence of urban culture on the transformation of the way of life of Galician peasants in the interwar period. The author considers the changes in traditional clothing, emphasizing that the novelties of fashion were adopted primarily by rural youth. Instead, representatives of the intelligentsia (priests, teachers) criticized such an excessive fascination with fashion and called it the second enemy of the Ukrainian countryside after vodka. Significant changes have taken place in the change of diet, household utensils and the interior of the peasants’ homes. For the modernization of domestic life, economic courses were organized for peasants, during which women were taught rational management, the basics of cooking, canning, hygiene, child care. The author emphasizes that the modernization processes affected all spheres of life of the rural population and had both negative and positive consequences.

Composing the noise space: Musical architecture of urban culture

In the recent climate change era of several tropical urban living and cultures, many slums are built on the railroad tracks accompanying the overheating environment. The people in that area can receive the noise radiation that was made from the railroad and the train wheels friction. The design research aims to manage noise with high intensity into the white noise, which was fit and valuable to increasing human life performance in daily life. It enhances through designing the attractive area at Malang urban area as the site and analyzing the environmental psychology approach according to adaptable barriers. This study uses audio editing and music notation software, Adobe Audition and Cubase, to capture the sound to support the design. The results highlighted that musical architecture could bridge the needs of the various people’s living space and noise that cannot be moved and deleted. The play of materials, order, and composition of time that pay attention to the intensity and frequency of noise design project compose the rhythm of formal and spatial settlement design.

Centralized Industrialization in the Memory of Places. Case Studies of Romanian Cities

The paper highlights the impact of excessive industrialization during the centralized economy era on urban spatial identity, as well as the disruption of this identity through political-administrative decisions, a phenomenon characteristic of the Central and Eastern European region during the era of centralized economies. The tendency to rebalance urban territorial systems is achieved through deindustrialization, together with reindustrialization and tertiarization. All these changes affect functionality, physiognomy as well as urban culture, and can be quantified through the changes in the memory of places. Urban toponyms related to industrialization are disappearing and are replaced by toponyms that illustrate the historical past of the city and, in general, its spatial identity. The paper aims to contribute to the development of research on the impact of oversized industrialization on the memory of places, in the context of the transition from industrial to service-based economies, a process that affected the states of the former Communist Bloc after 1990. Based on bibliographic sources and field research conducted between 2008 and 2020 in two cities in Romania (Bucharest, the country’s capital, and Galați, the largest river and seaport and the main centre of the steel industry in the country), we have evaluated quantitatively these changes with the help of indices resulting from the toponymic changes resulting from these processes. The study shows that the functional disturbances due to the oversized industrialization that characterized the communist period only managed to a small extent to affect the correlation between the spatial identity of the two cities and their toponymy.

Naturalistic inquiries of M. Bashkirtseva as an artist

The study pioneers the naturalistic search of Bashkirtseva as an artist, which was expressed in her involvement in the creation of a new movement in art, including painting, defined as naturalism. Several aesthetically significant and self-sufficient stages of its development in the creative activity of Maria Bashkirtseva are presented. It is noted that in this process the noblewoman's high education at home with her interest in the interaction of literature and painting, which in due course was understood as aesthetically valuable for painting and the artist, was initially obtained. The importance of the next naturalistic stage of Bashkirtseva is underlined, which is conditioned by her rapid acquisition of the European urban culture, one of the specific features of naturalism, first of all, the French one with the priority of Parisian peculiarities. In this way, it is emphasized that Bashkirtseva was not only focused on the development of critical and pictorial-literary trends in naturalism but also involved in their creation, developing the synthesis of literature and painting. It is emphasized that Bashkirtseva in the mastery of Dostoevsky largely anticipated the concept of Bakhtin, “following” the images of the Russian classic, giving them their naturalistic meaning.

Symbolic Tension in Contemporary Chinese Urban Film: Culture, Space and Community

Film semiotics is an important theory produced in the modern film period, and urban film closely responds to the process of contemporary Chinese urbanization. Borrowing the theory of film semiotics to analyze Chinese contemporary urban films, it can be found that typical cities have formed a unique symbolic tension, referring to urban culture, and having multiple symbolic elements sets to interpret the new imagination of the city. Urban film and film semiotics should jointly promote the poetic integration of various classes in the city, construct an urban emotional community, and form emotional resonance and spiritual progress.