MASS AND ELITE CULTURE: A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF CURRENT TRENDS IN THE CONTEXT OF MUSICAL PHENOMENA

Contemporary music, like culture in general, is undergoing significant transformations associated with globalization processes, postmodern worldviews, and the expansion of information technology, which has changed all areas of human life. Today, the massification of public consciousness makes the form of mass music culture an indisputable priority, forcing its elitist version, represented by academic musical traditions, to adapt to the dictatorial requirements of media culture, so as not to level off against the development of popular music. Among the trends in the development of mass and elite culture in the context of musical phenomena are: the dominance of media culture as a determining factor in development; the influence of media culture on the process of adaptive changes in elite culture; mythologizing reality in the musical works of the mascot; appeal to folklore motifs; overcoming the taboo on mass music culture in the perceptual paradigms of the modern; increasing tolerance in the categorization and evaluation of elite and mass phenomena in the art of music.