Song culture and its structural features

The article is devoted to the study of the world song culture as a categorical concept, which is in the same hierarchical row with the spiritual and artistic cultures, for which the internal structural features and their meanings are determined. Examples of the use of the obtained classification for the construction of generalized formulas of different types of song creativity, including the author's (bard's) song as an original song form, which occupies a middle place between professional song and folklore in modern artistic culture, are given.