Changing the contents of artistic works as a result of the substitution and blinding of the original meaning of precedent phenomena

Abstract

The article deal with the problems of perceiving and understanding the contents of artistic works and the reasons for their change. The rea­sons for the transformations of the original values, the influence of such transformations on changing the contents are clarified. The influ­ence of the considerable complexity of language and expressive means used by modern composers on the formation of contents is traced. The influence of the listener's insufficient cultural competence on the perception of complex-language works and changing their con­tents was revealed. For the first time, the role of precedent phenomena in the process of reading and forming the content of works in the pro­cess of their actualization has been consistently investigated. A very important factor in the adequate formation of contents is, in particular, taking into account the values provided by the analysis and under­standing of the precedent situation. This factor, which usually has a socio-cultural nature and is closely tied to specific historical realities, is usually "taken out of parentheses" in the process of perception, which, in our opinion, leads to a significant change in the contents of the perceived object. Erasing the original meanings of precedent names also clearly leads to changes and blurring of the formed con­tents, causing their «modernization». Even more mobile is the result of reading the values of precedent names, which are always closely re­lated to precedent situations.

The importance of intertextual and intermedial strategies for changing the contents of read texts is indicated. The importance of the involve­ment of paramusical and cross-cultural factors for the final establish­ment of the configuration of updated contents in the process of per­ception is emphasized.

All proposed theoretical formulations presented in the article are based on the results of detailed art and cultural analysis. The descrip­tion and results of one of these basic analyzes are given in the text of the article. This is an examination of the history of the formation of the modern text and the modern content of the well-known folk song of literary origin «How to sit, brothers, near the cup» based on a poem by Osyp Yurii Fedkovych. Peculiarities of reading this artistic text, deter­mined by discursive features and socio-cultural conditions of perfor­mance, are also analyzed.