The Fifth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony ...

<strong>The</strong> Problem of Interrelation Between Polyphony and Monophony on the
Example of Georgian Urban Musical Folklore
in a single artistic space. On the example of Tbilisi urban folklore the eastern and western components, their
archetypes not only integrate in a single cultural whole in different forms, but also create a system, whose
every layer is based on the balance between the opposite parts. <strong>The</strong>refore the typology of Georgian urban
musical culture may be viewed as a phenomenon observed from the angle of the dialogue of Eurasian cultures.
To confirm our consideration here is the Bakhtin’s quote: “Each culture lives in relation with other cultures
and great events are born within such dialogue between cultures. During these encounters the dialogues do
not merge or mix up, but enrich each other” (Bakhtin, 1984: 354). Thus one culture influences another, under
suitable circumstances and in case of the approximation of cultural codes common mentality is formed.
Kipling’s well-known consideration that West is West and East is East and they will never conflow is
incorrect, because they have conflown in Georgia, in Tbilisi.
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