Music and Time Annotation << Back Problems of the Actualization of Musical Folklore in the Late XX early XXI Centuries A.R. Zhivica, E.A. Kaminskaya The article is devoted to the main problems of the actualization of musical folklore in the late 20th–early 21st centure. In the modern misic space, a huge assortment of methods and approaches for the actualization of folklore is presented, playback, processing, stylization, arrangement and synthesis, each of which assumes the author’s interpretation of the folklore source. In this article, we focus on such acute problems arising in the actualization of folklore as: the quality of the embodiment of folklore and song art in the stage space, problems of stylization of folklore, popularity and mass distribution among the audience of not the most highly artistic examples of folk art, lack of theoretical and practical disciplines related to the use of current methods and means of processing folklore material, the process of training composers, soud engineers and performers. Keywords : musical folklor, actualization of folklore, stylization of folklore, folklorism, neofolklor. Pp. 18-20.