The Unfading Values of Traditional Culture

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Beslan G. Ashkhotov

Abstract

The article describes the events of the Fourth International Ethnic
Festival-Competition “Voices of the Golden Steppe” and the
Second International Academic Congress for Ethnomusicology
“East and West: Ethnic Identity and Traditional Musical Heritage
as a Dialogue of Civilizations and Cultures” (September 2013),
both of which are regularly held by the Ministry of Culture of the
Astrakhan Region and the State Center for Folk Music “Astrakhan
Song.” The main events of the grandiose festivity of ethnical
culture and the broad cultural program, which served as a broad
background for the festival and the congress, are characterized.
Over 150 performers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia
and Ukraine performed, fitting themselves into the festival’s
five nominations (solo folk singing, ensemble folk singing,
solo instrumental performance of ethnic music, instrumental
ensembles of ethnic music, folk choreography ensembles).
Scholars and researchers from 30 countries of America,
Africa, Asia and Europe took part in the ethnomusicology
congress. They carried an avid scholarly discourse on the mutual
influences and interaction of cultural paradigms and on the
destinies of the identities of ethnical cultures in the conditions
of worldwide globalization and influx of contemporary mass
culture.
The author of the article contemplates on the issue of
preservation of the nonmaterial cultural heritage, including the
archetypes of folk consciousness, highlighting in this context the
importance of the festivals-competitions held in Astrakhan.

Keywords: the festival-competition “Voices of the Golden
Steppe,” ethnomusicology congress, ethnical culture, the
dichotomy of “East-West”

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How to Cite
Ashkhotov, B. G. (2014). The Unfading Values of Traditional Culture. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (3), 25–29. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/91
Section
Festivals. Contests
Author Biography

Beslan G. Ashkhotov, The Northern Caucasus State Institute for the Arts

Doctor of Arts,
Pro-Rector for Studies,
Professor at the Music History
and Music Theory Department

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