The sacral religious music of the peoples of Dagestan in the modern socio-cultural context

The focus on the Arab world has become the marker of the new ethno-cultural and regional identity of the modern Dagestani. In the space of Muslim ritual the special musical and poetic forms of reading and singing of religious texts have been developed. Today, this is the frame of the sacral religious music. The correlation of universal and local musical intonation tunes of sacral religious genres reflects the identity dominants of the performers. This fact allows the author to ascertain the value of this music in the socio-cultural space of the region.