Kazakh traditional music and variety art in XX-XXI centuries

Аннотация

This article is the first to describe the features of the emergence of a variety art in nomadic society;
it provides the stages of development of musical variety art in Kazakhstan; it reveals general regularities,
genre and style characteristics. The article is the first to analyze ways of overcoming ideological taboos
of the socialist society in the former Soviet Republic, extending the living space of the traditional music
on stage, opening new forms of its existence. This was possible due to transition to an open democratic
society with its dynamism, expansion of cultural horizons, availability of world experience. The article
describes the birth and development of Kazakh variety art from the 30­ies of ХХ century up to the present
times, connection of variety art with traditional music and changing ideological paradigms of the Soviet
period and the period of independence. The article is devoted to the Kazakh variety art as the main type
of art in the republic.