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Social Aspect of the Blues Emergence as a Leading Phenomenon of African-American Culture of the 19th Century

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  • 1. Centre of Culture and Arts of the Dniprovskyi District of Kyiv, Ukraine

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The purpose of the article is to identify and study the social aspect of the emergence of the blues as a leading phenomenon of African-American culture of the 19th century. The research methodology is based on the use of universal scientific methods, namely system analysis, comparison, and generalisation, which provided a diverse study of the object and subject of research. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that the social aspect of the emergence of the blues as a leading phenomenon of African-American culture of the 19 century was highlighted in the context of cultural studies for the first time. Conclusions. The study reveals that the social aspect plays a leading role in the emergence of the blues. Historical conditions have led to the formation of the specific characteristics of the social processes that were of great importance in the context of the existence of the African-American community of the nineteenth century in the United States. The article demonstrates that the changes in the social space after the official abolition of slavery became the catalyst for the birth of the new forms in African-American culture. The specific nature of these social processes consisted in the peculiarities of the resocialisation of African Americans in the US society, social isolation, which greatly suppressed the phenomenon of social creativity in the African-American environment, the aspect of permanent resistance and struggle of African Americans for their rights in American society, which contributed to the preservation of the constancy of characteristic elements of African-American culture. These characteristics contributed to the identification of African- American culture against the background of the culture of the United States and subsequently of world culture. It is this aspect that should be identified as the main reason for the widespread and influence of the phenomena of African-American culture, in particular blues, on the emergence and formation of the dominant layer of musical culture, which is defined as non-academic music of the twentieth century.

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