The seasons in the lyrics of Russian rock: winter and summer

The article is devoted to understanding the artistic imagery of the seasons in the artistic reflection of Russian rock of the late XXth - early XXIst centuries from the standpoint of modern cultural studies. The composition of the key manifestations of the winter and summer (seasons, months, calendar periods and dates, events of the external environment and introspection of the lyrical hero) has been established. The key levels of the presence of the seasons are fixed: literal, historical and cultural, sociocultural, personal, spiritual and moral, symbolic. The key aesthetic paradigms of the dynamics of the imagery of the seasons in the artistic reflection of the authors and performers of Russian rock are indicated: neo-romanticism, postmodernism, metamodernism. As a result, the imagery of the seasons is defined as a dynamically developing and transforming poetic metatext of the seasons - a significant component of the chronotope of the generalized metaphysics of Russian rock.