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Chalga
Stylistic origins
Bulgarian music
Serbian folk music
Greek folk music
Balkan folk music[1]
Macedonian folk music
Arabesque music
Balkan brass music
Balkan pop
dance-pop
pop
Cultural origins
1960s, Bulgaria
Chalga (Bulgarian: чалга; often referred to as pop-folk, short for "popular folk" or ethno-pop, short for "ethnic pop")[2][3] is a Bulgarian music genre. Chalga or pop-folk is essentially a folk-inspired dance music genre,[4] with a blend of Bulgarian music (Bulgarian ethno-pop genre)[5] and also primary influences from Greek, Turkish and Arabic.
^An umbrella term covering Balkan; In this case Bulgarian and influence from Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Albanian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Romanian Turkish and indian music.
^Стателова, Розмари. (2003) Седемте гряха на чалгата. София: "Просвета — София" АД, ISBN 954-01-1536-1
^Димов, Венцислав. (2001) Етнопоп бумът. София: "Българско музикознание", ISBN 978-954-8307-14-7
^Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene, p. 144
popular music, in the pages that follow I concentrate on the most popular genre, chalga. In today's Balkan peninsula, chalga is the general name for a new dance music that is a complex mixture of various musical styles and traditions
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