SONG TRADITION OF ZAKAMSK KRYASHENS
The musical and poetic culture of the Kryashens - the ethno-confessional group of the Tatar community - is a distinctive phenomenon, marked by the uniqueness of all the structural components of its organization. At the same time, like any folk tradition, the Kryashen song culture is a conglomerate of several local microtrades, each of which, in turn, is determined by a “set” of specific qualities that require careful study. In the article, the object of the research is the song culture of the Naberezhnye Chelny ethnographic subgroup of Zakamsk Kryashens, living in the western part of the Ik-Zainsky interfluve.