The semantic role of traditional music culture in the nomadic mentality of the Kazakhs

Abstract

Relevance. Value orientations formed by centuries of historical and cultural experience characterise the deep level of collective and individual consciousness, mentally they are people's life and practical attitudes, emotional preferences, and stable images of the world, peculiar to a given community and its cultural tradition. Mentality also plays a decisive role in developing and forming ethno-cultural identity. Purpose. The article aims to consider some peculiarities of the nomadic mentality of the Kazakhs, manifested in the content of music and traditional art of the Kazakhs, as well as in the world of feelings, emotions and beliefs, bonded by the idea of unity of nature and man. Methodology. The study analyses the content of music and traditional art of the Kazakhs. Results. The nomadic mentality of Kazakhs is deeply embedded in their musical culture, influencing its genesis and continuing to shape its expression today. Besides, nowadays, in the century of global transformations and integrations, the understanding of the nature of a traditional nomadic mentality can become one of the ways to a meaningful movement towards modernization and a dialogue of the world cultures, based on the respect of the national cultural values. Conclusions. Thus, the article highlights the importance of making musical cultural traditions a powerful tool for self-development and preservation of ethnic and cultural identity. The necessity of this tool has become even more comprehensible in the 21st century, the age of unification of cultures. Keywords: nomadic mentality; traditional Kazakh culture; language and mentality; value orientations; art; being; transformation; post-civilisation.