THE CONCEPT OF “SINGING CULTURE” THROUGH THE LENS OF SINGING SOUND
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Information about authors: Gordeeva Tatyana Yuryevna, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department Chair of Music Education, Pedagogy and Musicology, Kazan State Institute of Culture (Kazan, Russian Federation). E-mail: Gordeeva-muz@rambler. ru
Annotation: According to the study of the existing definitions of the term “singing culture”, the author concludes that there is no precise definition of it due to the lack of evaluation criteria system. Taking into account the emerged tendencies in determining the singing culture, the author singled out its indicators of spiritual activity and material component. The article is aimed at searching a basic criterion, primary element, which will combine the ambivalence of spirituality and corporality of a human being. Such basic universal criterion of singing culture, apparently, is singing sound. The best approach to singing sound from the perspective of basic universal of singing culture is the phenomenon of the “inexpressible”. It is the “inexpressible” that represents the cause and the way of interconnection between mental activity and corporal nature of human coincided in singing phonation, since it initiates the process of ‘entelechy’ (self-movement). Examination of the singing sound through the lens of the “inexpressible” turns to the universal qualities of singing sound, closely related to the psychic unconscious and dual nature of body and spirit. Sound carries itself a double track of activity of psychic unconscious. The singing sound culture represents a self-modeling multi-level system for “cultivating” the singing sound through the sound mental activity of a person, transforming his corporality into the musical instrument simulacrum. The singing sound determines the meeting of mental and corporal human activity, which arises the problem of “inexpressible” which initiates the entelechy mechanism of cultural evolution. Thus, singing sound comprises the subject of singing culture.
Keywords: spiritual culture, singing culture, singing sound, “inexpressible,” entelechy, chronotope, singing sound culture.
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Information about authors: Gordeeva Tatyana Yuryevna, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department Chair of Music Education, Pedagogy and Musicology, Kazan State Institute of Culture (Kazan, Russian Federation). E-mail: Gordeeva-muz@rambler. ru
Annotation: According to the study of the existing definitions of the term “singing culture”, the author concludes that there is no precise definition of it due to the lack of evaluation criteria system. Taking into account the emerged tendencies in determining the singing culture, the author singled out its indicators of spiritual activity and material component. The article is aimed at searching a basic criterion, primary element, which will combine the ambivalence of spirituality and corporality of a human being. Such basic universal criterion of singing culture, apparently, is singing sound. The best approach to singing sound from the perspective of basic universal of singing culture is the phenomenon of the “inexpressible”. It is the “inexpressible” that represents the cause and the way of interconnection between mental activity and corporal nature of human coincided in singing phonation, since it initiates the process of ‘entelechy’ (self-movement). Examination of the singing sound through the lens of the “inexpressible” turns to the universal qualities of singing sound, closely related to the psychic unconscious and dual nature of body and spirit. Sound carries itself a double track of activity of psychic unconscious. The singing sound culture represents a self-modeling multi-level system for “cultivating” the singing sound through the sound mental activity of a person, transforming his corporality into the musical instrument simulacrum. The singing sound determines the meeting of mental and corporal human activity, which arises the problem of “inexpressible” which initiates the entelechy mechanism of cultural evolution. Thus, singing sound comprises the subject of singing culture.
Keywords: spiritual culture, singing culture, singing sound, “inexpressible,” entelechy, chronotope, singing sound culture.
