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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2026. № 5 (191), 1612—1620

UDK 655.41:78(477)”1970/1979″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

  • Received: 30.08.2026
  • Accepted: 21.09.2026
  • Published: ??.??.2026

PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES OF MUZYCHNA UKRAINA IN THE 1970s (BASED ON ARCHIVAL MATERIALS)

ZUBAY Yuriy

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1475-8368
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD),
  • Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music Theory,
  • Kyiv Municipal Academy of Circus and Performing Arts,
  • 88, Zhylianska Str., 01032, Kyiv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts:e-mail: yuriyzubay@gmail.com

Abstract. Music publishing was an important component of the musical and cultural infrastructure of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1970s, yet the internal organization and editorial practices of specialized publishing institutions remain insufficiently studied. In particular, the institutional mechanisms of editorial decision-making, repertoire formation, and the preparation of music publications for print have not yet been examined comprehensively. The research is based on materials from the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine (CSAMLA of Ukraine), which make it possible to reconstruct the internal mechanisms of the publishing house Muzychna Ukraina. The purpose of the article is to examine the organizational, editorial, and repertoire-related principles of its activity and the main practices of preparing music publications for print. The study employs historical-source, archival-heuristic, systematic, analytical, and comparative methods. The research identifies the structure and specialization of editorial departments, changes in their professional composition throughout the decade, and mechanisms of reviewing musical works and manuscripts, including collective discussion, listening sessions, reconsideration, partial approval, and recommendations for revision. The main areas of the repertoire included academic compositions, musicological, educational and pedagogical literature, publications of Ukrainian folk-song heritage, serial editions, and publications for a broad readership. The article also examines contractual relations, royalties, complimentary author copies, and practices of artistic design. Particular attention is paid to the influence of state ideological and commemorative priorities on thematic planning and administrative control over publishing activity. It is concluded that Muzychna Ukraina functioned as a complex institutional system in which editorial practice, repertoire formation, publishing procedures, and state cultural policy were closely interconnected.

Keywords: Ukrainian musical culture, publishing, cultural policy of the Ukrainian SSR, publication of Ukrainian folk-song heritage, Ukrainian composers, musical infrastructure.

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