FOLKLORE AND AESTHETICS
FOLKLORE AND AESTHETICS

Summary/Abstract: Folklore is defined as the multitude of artistic manifestations and values, belonging to the spiritual popular culture. The aspects that characterize the facts of folklore: orality, collective character, the relationship between tradition and innovation, syncretism of languages, determine structural coordinates and concrete forms of realization. Literature is a repertoire of means of expression: motifs, images, metaphors, groups of rhymes, mythical representations, magical formulas, etc. In essence, spiritual popular culture - folklore - must be delimited from an aesthetic point of view, because folklore means the multitude of works and artistic manifestations belonging. In the popular work there is a concern for background, content and less for form, artistic expression, but the aesthetic values of folklore have their specificity. Folk opera, in this case the old narrative songs or fairy tales, must be seen as a continuous attempt, as an improvisation being organized. The artist finds, during the execution, in the lyrics - template, support points. The schemes are those that give him the security of cutting the subject. In conclusion, ethno - aesthetics will study the genesis and the principles of elaboration and reception of the variants of beauty, at the level of the categorical system of the arts.

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