About the Conference

The conference is devoted to the current state of knowledge about the traditional and indigenous musical cultures of the world.

The heritage of these cultures has tremendous aesthetic value and stylistic diversity. More importantly, these cultures — often represented by a small number of carriers — preserve original and ancient forms of musical thinking in the face of the expansion of the European professional tradition and the global trends of mass music.

The conference brings together prominent researchers to reveal the achievements of ethnomusicology, to provide insights into discoveries and ideas in the study of traditional musical cultures and the problems of their preservation.

One of the main ideas of the conference is that the scientific understanding of music is impossible without taking into account the experience of traditional cultures in all their diversity.