Suzukey Valentina Yurevna

TRADITIONAL MUSICAL CULTURE OF TUVA IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURAL PARADIGMS OF MODERNITY

The paper considers the role of the basic parameters of Tuvan musical culture, which, despite social and political transformations, retain a kind of configurational stability, which in itself is new and relevant. The relevance of the topic is also determined by the existing conceptual discrepancies (inconsistencies) between musical practice and its scientific development. The reasons for these discrepancies stemmed from the cultural policy of the Soviet state, which sought to unify culture throughout the territory of the superpower solely on the basis of the European model for the development of musical creativity. The need for scientific understanding of the axiological aspect of traditional culture in the context of a period of value crises, breaking the existing system and searching for new cultural foundations and orientations also determines the relevance of the topic. 

As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the definition of a tradition as “unprofessional” does not mean the absolute absence of its own concept of the formation and development of music. This knowledge was handed down orally from generation to generation for centuries. The oral tradition has its own professional mechanisms for the transfer of knowledge, and the task of knowing specific unwritten patterns is a problem exclusively of science, and not of the tradition itself.