Bjork’s creativity: Between mass and elite

Abstract

The article considers the work of the Icelandic singer Björk, which exists in the border space between elite art and modern youth subcultures. Analyzing various samples of her work, the author comes to the conclusion that the principles of vocal work are similar to the methods of modern academic music, and the performativity of her work is connected with the ideas of the great actionists of her time such as Marina Abramovich. The conclusion of the study is the need for the existence in the common space of various forms of academic and non-academicart, which gives new impulses to the development of modern culture.