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| 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 pop-folk 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, Serbian, Turkish and Arabic, as well as American hip-hop.
- ^ 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
- ^ Music in the Balkans, p. 669, at Google Books