Инструментальная музыка и этноисторическая идентификация: самосознание и традиция
Instrumental music and ethnohistorical identification: identity and tradition

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the article is the role of traditional musical instruments, genres and forms of instrumental music in identifying the ethnic and cultural-historical specificity of a particular ethnocultural population, allowing it to be objectively interpreted and attributed to a specific ethnic group in the present or past, especially since the ethnohistorical specificity of instrumentalism can persist despite the complete loss of national identity and even the language of communication. The cultural situations in marginal ethnic groups (living on their ethnic territory, but finding themselves in the process of historical collisions as part of a foreign state and in the field of action of several integration vectors simultaneously - state and ethnic metropolises) are considered; as well as in compact diasporas. State, political, and confessional factors influencing ethnic identification and culture are taken into account. The prerequisites and processes for the revival of ethnic identity, conditioned by the expansion of the sphere of knowledge and cultural initiatives of the local intelligentsia, including in the field of traditional music, are considered. Particular attention in the article is paid to local groups with a weak, mutated or assimilated national identity. The material of the article is Belarusian, Ukrainian, Vepsian, Boykovsky, Volga-German, Sami ethnic groups in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany.

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