Balkan Music: Music of Turkey, Music of Greece, Music of the Republic of Macedonia, Music of Bulgaria, Music of Serbia, Music of Romania, Manele, Gaida, Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Music of Montenegro, Balkan Brass Band

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Music of Turkey, Music of Greece, Music of the Republic of Macedonia, Music of Bulgaria, Music of Serbia, Music of Romania, Manele, Gaida, Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fanfare Cioc rlia, Music of Montenegro, Balkan Brass Band, Angel's Breath, Music of Moldova, Pop-folk, Khigga, Yalli, Ljiljana Buttler, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Adria Act, o ek, Narodna muzika, iftetelli, List of Serbian folk songs, Ganga, Longa, List of Montenegrin folk songs. Excerpt: The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and has many copies and references of Byzantine music, Greek music, Ottoman music, Persian music, Balkan music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences. Turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures from across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and South and Central Asia. The roots of traditional music in Turkey spans across centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks colonized Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences. Much of its modern popular music can trace its roots to the emergence in the early 1930s drive for Westernization. With the assimilation of immigrants from various regions the diversity of musical genres and musical instrumentation also expanded. Turkey has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of Greek, Armenian, Music of Albania, Polish, Azeri and Jewish communities, among others. Many Turkish cities and towns have vibrant local music scenes which, in turn, support a number of regional musical styles. Despite this however, western-style pop music lost popularity to arabesque in the late 70s and 80s, with even its greatest proponents Ajda Pekkan and S...