Musicology Annotation << Back Modern Folk-Groups of Tuva: New Minstrelation? Karelina Ye.K. The article is about a contemporary state of folklore tradition in Tuva. The analysis of typical elements puts on deduction about the transformation of folklore tradition which changes to new state of an authorship and a trade. The many signs of our object resemble a culture of the Europan mediжval minstrels. So, we are introducing the notion as “new-minstrelation”. Key words: Tuva, folklore tradition, trade, new-minstrelation. E-mail: ye_karelina@mail.ru