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Balkan Folk Music

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The traditional music of the Balkan peninsula: Bosnian sevdalinka, Dalmatian klapa, Romanian doina and colindă, and the asymmetric dance rhythms, brass bands and vocal polyphony shared across Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia and their neighbours.

The Balkans · emerged Medieval period · peak 20th century

Also called: music of the balkans, southeast european folk music

History

Ottoman, Slavic, Romani and Austro-Hungarian influences layered over centuries; socialist-era state ensembles preserved and polished the repertoire, and the 1990s brought Balkan brass and turbo-folk to the world.

What it sounds like

Asymmetric metres such as 7/8 and 11/8
Vocal polyphony and drone singing
Brass bands and accordion
Ottoman-influenced melancholy song

Beneath it: colindă, doina, izvorna bosanska muzika, klapa, sevdalinka

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