Abstract
The article considers some peculiarities of the nomadic mentality of the Kazakhs, manifested in the content of music traditional art of the Kazakhs, as well as in the world of feelings, emotions and beliefs, bonded by the idea of the unity of nature and man. The author concludes that these vital ba-ses of the Kazakh people have historically set their mentality as the strategy of existence and are reflected in the complicated processes of genesis of the Kazakh traditional musical culture, which nature is vividly expressed even up to date. Besides, nowadays, in the century of global transfor-mations and integrations, the understanding of the nature of a traditional nomadic mentality can be-come one of the ways to a meaningful movement towards modernization and a dialogue of the world cultures, based on the respect of the national cultural values.