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The article comprehensively examines antinomies of the amateur performance development in Ukraine of 1930s. The factual basis of the research is the materials of the newspapers, magazines, and musical journals of this period. It is proved that the phenomenon of amateur performance, as one of the most significant phenomena of totalitarian society's mass culture, consists in its contradictory nature: on the one hand, mass artistic movement, population's sincere faith and enthusiasm, and on the other, politicization, ideological engagement, fear of physical destruction. The actions of the Soviet authorities in the one of most dramatic periods of the last century for Ukraine - the 1930s - regarding the dissemination and support of musical amateur music are analyzed (for example, regular financial support, awarding of bonuses, patronage, organization of public events, set-up of publishing activities, training systems for amateur performance leaders, which, in general, contributed to raising musical amateur movement in Ukraine to a professional level). At the same time, it is found that amateur performance was one of the tools for shaping the ideology of a totalitarian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the concepts of artistic avant-garde by Peter Burger, Boris Groys, and Peter Osborn in order to observe the connection between philosophical criticism of the avant-garde and the justification of its historical status. These three views coincide in the research subject, but they are distinct in approaches to its interpretation. Their benchmarking study allows us to connect the avant-garde theories developed in the researcher's work with their vision of the art history. Herewith the context of the appearance and existence of certain historical trends is considered in their connection with the present. Through explication and comparison of the theoretical approaches' it has been established that all three concepts recognize the key importance of the institution of art for the reflection and the avant-garde self-reflection. Inclusion in social and political processes is highlighted through the institution of art, which defines the artist's status and specificity the way of reading works through the question of art "autonomy". The paper presents a comparison of different views on overcoming the autonomy as an exit to the level of criticism of an art institution on the one hand, and its overcoming by going out in practical life on the other hand. The key to understanding the independence and criticality of the avant-garde to the art movements of the past is its temporal aspiration for the future. The temporal independence of the avant-garde is analyzed in relation to the temporal regimes of modernity and contemporary as an opportunity to overcome the historicist schemes of writing the avant-garde to the art history and its consideration in the conditions of temporal and historical independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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