Musicology Annotation << Back Stylistic trends in academic music of Kazakhstan in 1980–2010's. On the issue of National Vanguard Valeriya E. Nedlina The article provides a picture of the stylistic trends in Kazakhstani academic music of modern period, including universally-oriented, traditionally-oriented and artificially-sincretic. These trends appear in classic-romantic stylistic direction, as well as in the emerging national avant-garde. National avant-garde has specific features such as close links with religious and philosophical systems (shamanism, Tengriism), reliance on archaic sound-ideals, experimental character (and hence the fewness of works). Common to all stylistic directions are attraction to the program music and dialogic. Creative searches of composers reflect (and sometimes anticipate) the processes in the culture of the country as a whole: reinterpretation of the cultural heritage, revival of traditions, deepening and widening of the scope of national art and it’s outgoing to the world level. Keywords: music of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstani composers, national avant-garde, stylistic trends, type of composition. Contacts: E-mail: leranedlin@gmail.com Pp. 12-18.