Pop-folk
Not to be confused with folk pop.
| Pop-folk | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Balkan, Pop |
| Cultural origins | Individual folk music |
| Typical instruments | Produces various acoustic or folk acoustic sounds of String instruments. |
| Subgenres | |
| Balkan pop - Skiladiko - Chalga - Manele - Turbo-Folk - Arabesk - Tallava | |
Pop-folk (Cyrillic: Поп-фолк) is an umbrella term for several music styles in the Balkans, characterized by the fusion of pop music, folk music and dance music or in other words the fusion of commercial folk music, the ethnic elements of each area and the "nightclub" music.
- Turbo-folk, in former Yugoslavia, commonly known as
- Skiladiko, in Greece
- Chalga, in Bulgaria
- Manele, in Romania
- Tallava, in Albania
See also
- Arabesque, in Turkey
- Mizrahi music, in Israel
- Music of Lebanon
- Arabic pop music
- Disco polo, in Poland
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