MODERN STATE OF THE EVENKI MUSICAL FOLKLORE (BY THE EXAMPLE OF EXPEDITION MATERIALS, 1986-2014, COLLECTED FROM THE EVENKS OF YAKUTIA)
In the article the author considers the modern state of the musical folklore of the Evenks as an indigenous small in number people of Eastern Siberia. The expedition materials of the end of the XX - the beginning of the XXI century, which were collected in Aldanskii, Neryungrinskii, Olekminskii, Olenekskii districts of Yakutia, are taken as a basis of the study. The author reveals the genres of the traditional musical folklore of the Evenks that have survived today, gives a brief description of them, as well as touches on the welfare issue and considers it from the point of view of the evaluation of the contemporary spiritual state of the ethnos.