V monografii osveshchen odin iz vazhneyshikh etapov razvitiya khudozhestvennoy samodeyatel"nosti v Sovetskom Soyuze – 1980 - 1991gg. , vklyuchayushchiy perestroyku 1985-1991gg. V eto poslednee pered raspadom SSSR desyatiletie proshlogo veka khudozhestvennaya samodeyatel"nost" dostigla nebyvaloy massovosti i khudozhestvenno-esteticheskoy zrelosti. Nablyudalsya vzryv interesa issledovateley k etoy sfere dosuga naseleniya, bylo zashchishcheno bolee 50 pedagogicheskikh, iskusstvovedcheskikh, filosofskikh dissertatsiy, posvyashchennykh samodeyatel"nomu khudozhestvennomu tvorchestvu. V 1980-e gody zarozhdaetsya nauchnaya shkola teorii, istorii i metodiki prepodavaniya narodnoy khudozhestvennoy kul"tury, osnovatelem kotoroy yavlyaetsya avtor dannoy monografii T.I.Baklanova. Rassmatrivaemyy period interesen eshche i tem, chto imenno togda byli vneseny sushchestvennye izmeneniya v podgotovku kadrov rukovoditeley samodeyatel"nykh khudozhestvennykh kollektivov, obosnovana neobkhodimost" izmeneniya ideologicheskoy paradigmy takoy podgotovki i pereorientatsii ee soderzhaniya na sokhranenie i razvitie etnokul"turnykh traditsiy narodov Rossii, na razrabotku i vnedrenie razlichnykh form etnokul"turnogo i etnokhudozhestvennogo obrazovaniya.