The book contains articles of different years by A. S. Kabanov devoted to the study of the folklore movement in Russia (the so-called youth folklore movement) from the late 70s to the present day. The book includes the author's fundamental works on sociocultural design: "On the problem of preserving the song folklore tradition in modern conditions," "Modern folklore groups in the city," "Prospects for the folklore movement in modern folk art," as well as a number of descriptions of objects of intangible cultural heritage from the author's personal archive.