Music and Time Annotation << Back On the question of the search criteria for the algorithm of ethno-identity in the styles of modern national composers (using the example of M. Kasumov) A.V. Bobneva The article is devoted to the problem of ethnic identity, which is relevant for the theory of national composer schools and styles. Its importance is determined by the current state of the stylistic systems of national composers, whose polystylistic nature is complicated by the process of globalization. In these conditions, the search for identity has become for the composer a problem of an existential nature, which requires a shift of the research vector into the sphere of universal structures of the human psyche - the archetypes of unconscious thinking. The article makes an assumption about the expediency of interpreting the processes of sense formation in systems of heterogeneous type from the perspective of the composer’s personal existence problems - testing the author in the world culture, and considering the structure of the initial rite as a universal model of this process. This criterion made it possible to clarify the algorithmic model of self-identification using the principle of consciousness compensation by the archetypical currents of the energies of the collective unconscious (the psycho-mental complex of an ethnos) formulated by CG Jung. A special function of the ethnic identity algorithm, which provides not only the process of psychological self-regulation, but also self-organization of sense-and style-formation systems, is based on the example of the creative work of the modern Dagestan composer M. Kasumov. Keywords: ethnos, identification, mentality, Dagestan, style. Contacts: E-mail: Anna-sypalo@yandex.ru Pp. 24-32.