URBAN SONG SUBCULTURE AND SICH RIFLEMEN’S SONGS IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONAL TRADITION OF GALICIA’S MUSIC ART

Abstract

The article highlights the process of formation of the genre of street («batiarskiy») song as an important element of the urban musical subculture in the context of fundamental historical changes in the life of the multicultural community of Galicia region at the end of the 19th – the first third of the 20th century. The exceptional importance of the creativity of Sich Riflemen and a whole galaxy of artists, who carried national and regional patriotic symbolism, performed the functions of a peculiar artistic opposition to alien influences of the occupation regime in forming of the traditions of the popular song of Galicia is considered in a separate perspective. It is revealed that the repertoire tradition of the urban song subculture of Galicia, as well as the creativity of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen’s artists and its folklorized forms, being the established norm of widespread popular use for the western Ukrainian territories, is gradually projected on further processes of genre formation and certainly has a significant influence on the trends of popular development.