Interconnection of historical and artistic truth in the Cossack song folklore of the Dnieper region

Abstract

This article for the first time describes artistic and Cossack folklore of center and lower parts of the Dnipro banks of the as integral genre-thematic system is in the plan of methodology of study of dominant signs of its poetics, aesthetics, conception of hero, structure of text. It is defined that it is a degree of authenticity of zobrazhennikh events of the Cossacks in Ukrainian folklore, in what measure Cossack folklore is a historical source.