Typical bridge tunes in jazz music 1920–1960s

One of the most important components that determine the level of professional competence of a modern musician specializing in jazz music performance is mastering the basic laws of the art of improvisation, based on knowledge and understanding of the laws of traditional harmonic structures and stylistic features of jazz music of the 20–60s of the XX century. A qualified performer and teacher must have knowledge of the skills and abilities of this type of musical practice, which are aimed not so much at improving various techniques of playing the instrument, as at the competent use of stylistic elements of the musical language, its means of expression and forms. The typology and systematization of the main types of harmonic schemes of jazz works of the middle of the twentieth century helps the optimal practical and theoretical assimilation of technological principles and various creative methods aimed at further developing the harmonious thinking of the performer. Within the framework of this research, an analysis of the basic structures of the middle parts in jazz music of the 20–60s of the XX century is undertaken. Methods for studying this issue based on the works of David Baker, Jerry Cooker, Mark Levine and Richard Scott are presented.

The contribution of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova to the development of the Russian Cultural Studies

The article is devoted to the formation and the development of the academic, creative and organization path of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova – Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, International Academy of Sciences of Higher School. The main stages of the biography and the results of her academic activity are considered in this article. It is shown that Svetlana N. Ikonnikova made the great contribution to the formation of such branch of Humanities as the Sociology of Youth. The separate stage is the creation of the Department of Theory and History, which played an important role in the development of the St. Petersburg School of Cultural Studies as well as the study of problems of theory and history of culture. The author shows the development of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova’s biographical method in Cultural Studies. This method played an important role in the study of personal contribution of creative personalities to the development of culture. The author analyzes the personal contribution of Svetlana N. Ikonnikova to the institutionalization of Cultural Studies as an academic and educational subject.

Cultural project «Soviet man»

The article actualizes the concept of «Soviet man» as a socio-cultural and philosophical-anthropological phenomenon. Based on a broad empirical material, the author substantiates the idea of the project «Soviet man» as a generalized artistic image, a set of social and moral characteristics, visual and verbal matrices. The integration of the cultural project with the world tradition (in particular, the ancient one) is established, and the artistic-aesthetic and socio-political aspects of works of art as cultural practices are substantiated. It is concluded that the considered concept incorporates human experience, which is in demand due to its diversity, tendentiousness, structural certainty, strangeness and recognizability.

Historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage: conceptualization, differentiation and content

Pharmaceutical heritage is a set of scientific and practical achievements of pharmaceutical activity of mankind. Historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage is a collection of tangible and intangible evidence of the historical development of pharmaceutical science and practice, embodying a significant socio-cultural experience of humanity and preserved for transmission to future generations. Pharmaceutical and medical heritage is difficult to differentiate due to the long joint history of development and intertwining modern practices, but the separation of the professions of a doctor and a pharmacist allows us to distinguish the historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage from the end of the XVII century. Historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage is classified into tangible and intangible, according to functional characteristics, material historical and cultural heritage is divided into movable and immovable heritage.

The historian of the book and book business I. E. Barenbaum (to the 100th anniversary of his birth)

A detailed review of the scientific activities of professor I. Ye. Barenbaum (1921–2006), the most famous representative of the St. Petersburg school of bibliology in the field of the history of books and book business, is given. Particular attention is paid to his contribution to the study of the history of books in the second half of the 19th century. The role of I. Ye. Barenbaum as an innovator and pioneer in the study of the history of the publishing activity of revolutionary democrats is substantiated. The scientific heritage of the scientist is about 400 publications. I. Ye. Barenbaum’s main research activities were the history of the book business of St. Petersburg, the history of revolutionary-democratic book publishing in the 19th century, the history of the reader, and the French book in Russia. The article analyzes the main works devoted to the book business of St. Petersburg. His contribution to the creation of textbooks on the history of the book is shown. The work of I. Ye. Barenbaum on the historiography of the history of the book is considered.

Conceptuality in the modern design practice

The main idea – concept is key point for creative process in design practice, which includes intuition, fantasy, spontaneous decisions. Digital technology leads to formalization of creative process, algorithms, so the real question concerns how the rational ideas and intuitions are harmonize in design. The method «creative navigation» maintains creative freedom of designer and at the same time streamlining of mental process. The method «creative navigation» considered in comparison with «scenario methods» and the theory of speculative design. This article explores semiotic aspects of the method. The author gives considerable attention to approbation of method «creative navigation» in real design practice.

Designing the pedagogical design of the educational environment of the university

The relevance of the research is due to the fact that the educational environment of the university is an integral element of the educational process, which is constantly changing, even at a fairly high speed. In this regard, pedagogical design in such conditions concerns not only educational programs, but also the environment itself. The author considers a new category «pedagogical design», defines how the pedagogical designer differs from the methodologist or methodologist; Why is a pedagogical design design mechanism needed? The empirical basis of the study was the data of international studies by Deloitte «Digital Education Survey», Goldman, EFMD, Metaari, Technavio, as well as data from domestic studies by HR-academy and the Sberbank Corporate University. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the author presents a mechanism for designing the pedagogical design of the educational environment of the university, based on obtaining, comprehending, checking one’s own experience and analyzing best practices. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the results obtained will allow educational institutions to structure their work in such a way as to calmly relate to changes, responding to requests from the labor market, while making changes made the training solution the most effective.

Landscape gardening art of the Hellenistic states of Asia Minor

The article continues a cycle of publications of the author on Hellenustic landscape gardening art. The cultural region, which already in the most ancient times was a contact zone between the Greek world and the East is considered. The historical heritage of the Phrygian and Lydian kingdoms and the Persian Empire, which bequeathed to governors the Hellenistic era sacred groves, hunting reserves paradises and terrace parks with regular planning is traced. Special attention is devoted to parks of the Pontic kingdom of time of Mithridates VI Eupator’s government and parks of Pergamon. The country residence of Mithridates VI in Kabeira is interesting as a sample of the landscape park, the first in the history of the European landscape gardening art, at which there are motives characteristic for parks of time of Romanticism. Besides, parks in Kabeira and in Pergamon had unique collections poisonous and the herbs gathered by Mithridates VI and Attalus III. According to the author of article, these collections, besides utilitarian appointment, being raw materials for preparation of poisons and drugs, had aesthetic value, enriching park landscapes, and their natural qualities were intricately connected with mythology and religion of Greeks. Base of a research are the landscapes of the Black Sea coast of Turkey, the rich archaeological material saving up in one and a half centuries of excavations in Pergamon, and written sources, compositions of antique authors, among which are the works of poet and scientist 2nd century BC Nicander of Colophon not yet translated to Russian.

Imaginary novelty and its affirmation in culture

The study of novelty as a cultural phenomenon presupposes the formulation and solution of the problem in the ultimate interpretation, as an unbiased description of its appearance on a defined territory, reducing it to preestablished principles that explain novelty as certainty and stability. This means understanding the phenomenal limit-the novelty goes to infinity and shimmers in the vastness of being, appears to the inquisitive mind in the form of original discoveries and imaginary worlds. Novelty is revealed as the opening potency of being with the possibilities that have appeared – the reversal of events that are its direct implementation. The formulation of the novelty problem immediately confronts the initial contradiction and the difficulty of solving it. Imaginary novelty compensates for the unavailability of a material analog-it fills the voids of being and presence with its creations. Imaginary novelty carries the desired illusions that inspire the enthusiast, but under the cover of dreams, the real novelty of being grows. The paper suggests the related concepts: imaginative, imaginary, quasi-objective for the expansion of the intellectual landscape of the field of culture. In the aspect of novelty, the imaginary appears as an outstripping development of the presence, its separation from being and self-active bifurcation, the desire for a new material embodiment – the production of added being.

Digital Humanities: humanities and media culture

The article examines the achievements and problems that exist in the digital research in the context of the development of media culture, today virtual reality has ceased to be a situational option. Media culture turns out to be a two-way phenomenon: on the one hand, it is a product of our civilization, on the other hand, it transforms our culture. Digital Humanities focus on different ways of processing and presenting information, at the same time, any data selection work presupposes the presence of an angle of view, ethical and ideological grounds for the selection itself and the context for the presentation of research results. Criticism of Digital Humanities can be viewed from the standpoint of the «remove culture» by R. Barth. The removal of culture presupposes the development of the postmodern idea of the need to reveal how much our ideas about the world are predetermined by certain cultural schemes, languages and genres, including how non-neutral media culture in general and digital research is. In the absence of criticism, lack of agreements on ethical norms, social responsibility, the risks are that we allow media culture and digital research tools in a sense to dictate to us the type of society in which we live