Research on the Traditional Music and Ethnography of the Dnipro Region (Ukraine): From its Origins to the Present Day

The aim of the article is to present a wide research picture of the ethnographic heritage of the area of the Dnipro Rapids (currently a military frontline zone), which began in the 19th century. The essential features of the local cultural heritage from this region are very problematic, because, historically, the society of new settlers here changed many times. Exploratory fieldwork continued in the 1990s. Active systematic field studies of the entire existing layer of traditional music in most areas of the current Dnipro region lasted from 2015 to 2021, and were interrupted first by the pandemic, and later by the full-scale war. Continuity of field research in this area is currently almost impossible, and it stopped because of the Russian military action there. This is why the academic investigation of already-collected material from this region is very important and more relevant, because the continuity of this local folk culture heritage was discontinued.