Balken

Hear this out loudPauseFolk songs mixed with rock, pop and dance, Gypsy sounds and incessant, asymmetrical rhythms of violins, accordions, trumpets and saxophones. This is Balkan Beats, that reached its peak of popularity in the early 2000s.

Hear this out loudPauseBalkan folk music is the traditional folk music within Balkan region. In South Slavic languages, it is known as narodna muzika (народна музика) or folk muzika (фолк музика) in Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian, and alternatively narodna glazba in standard Croatian, and narodna glasba in Slovene.

Hear this out loudPauseAs a diverse genre, Balkan music is characterized by its unique combination of local folk traditions, instruments, and rhythms. Some popular styles within the genre include Sevdah from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turbo-folk from Serbia, Chalga from Bulgaria, and Manele from Romania.

Hear this out loudPauseMany different instruments are played in the brass bands of the Balkans. The most common are trumpets, trubas (rotary-valve flugelhorns), baritone horns, tubas, saxophones, trombones, clarinets, tupans and bass drums, snare drums and accordions. Different regions favor different combinations and numbers of instruments.

Hear this out loudPauseThe word Balkan is Turkish and means “mountain,” and the peninsula is certainly dominated by this type of landform, especially in the west. The Balkan Mountains lie east-west across Bulgaria, the Rhodope Mountains extend along the Greek-Bulgarian border, and the Dinaric range extends down the Adriatic coast to Albania.

Hear this out loudPauseFor the purposes of this article, “the Balkans” refers to the territories of present-day Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and the successor states of Former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia).

Hear this out loudPauseNumerous songs by heart The broadest definition lets the Balkan start in Moravia (the eastern part of the Czech Republic) and ends in Greece or European Turkey.

Hear this out loudPauseThe Balkans (/ˈbɔːlkənz/ BAWL-kənz), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria.

Hear this out loudPauseThe Balkans was a region of geographical and ethnic variation comprising modern-day Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro whose inhabitants were broadly known as the Slavs. A large part of the Balkans was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.

Hear this out loudPauseThe Balkan Peninsula represents a conglomerate of regional cultures, such as the Danubian (in his work Danube, Claudio Magris speaks of a true Danubian koine which characterises all the peoples living on the banks of this river, from Germany to Rumania-Bulgaria), the Carpathian culture (a traditionally egalitarian ...

Hear this out loudPauseThe energetic and fast beats encourage dance and are egalitarian, often resulting in participation by the entire audience; this unpretentious relationship with audiences, highly charged energy and loud and joyful performances by highly skilled musicians has contributed to its successes.

Hear this out loudPauseThe word Balkan is Turkish and means 'mountain'. The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a region in the south-east of Europe.