The Art of Academic Music in the Context of Academization

Abstract

The article observes the present-day increase of interest in the comprehension of the conceptions, related to art studies, such as “academic art,” “academization,” etc.: several definitions are provided and their scholarly evaluation is formulated. The authorial conception of the academization of the art of music and the education which is closely connected with it is given: new definitions of the indicated conceptions are demonstrated and substantiated, methodological approaches are contemplated, the contours of the main regular occurrences (such as desyncretization, unification and natural selection) and tendencies (positive and negative), allocations are made of various types (the natural and the artificial), perspectives (the global and the individual) and technologies (subtraction, gravitation, socialization) of academization of art and education, the substance and paradigms of folklore and academic art are disclosed, a model of academization is elaborated. Definitions are also given of new conceptions: “post-academic syndrome,” “desyncretization,” “subtraction,” “socialization,” etc. The main conclusions of this research are concentrated around the prospects of studying the processes of academization of the art of music, since both the positive and the negative tendencies discovered by the author (the most important of which are the reduction of the communicative function of contemporary art, the dedemocratization and the leveling of the national traits of art) ae capable of influencing its future substantially, which means that their regulation may become the instrument of formation of this future.