Serbia and Montenegro is a Balkan country, recently ravaged by war that has caused widespread migration and cultural oppression. Indigenous folk music (narodna muzika) remains popular, both traditional tunes and more modern compositions. The most modernized form of folk music is novokomponovana narodna muzika, which is a best-selling genre throughout Serbia and Montenegro. The music of Southeastern Europe is a type of music distinct from others in Europe. ... Like the surrounding Balkan countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had a turbulent past marked by frequent foreign invasions and occupation. ... The Republic of Macedonia, formally known by international organizations and foreign states as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), is a diverse country, with a Slav Macedonian majority (65%) and a large Albanian minority (25%), and Turks, Cincars, Gypsies, Greeks and Serbs. ... 19th century print of Roma musicians Roma music is highly varied among the diverse communities of the Roma (aka Gypsies). ... Thrace is a historical region of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. ... ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... List of Serbian folk songs: Ajd d idemo, Rado Ajde Jano Ajde Kato Bele ruze nezne ruze Biljana platno belese Bledi mesec Bolujem ja Cetir konja debela Ciganka sam mala Crven fesic Cujes seko Duni vjetre Ej cija frula Fijaker Stari Govori se da me varas Hladan vetar poljem piri... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Serbia and Montenegro  â€“ Serbia    â€“ Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    â€“ Vojvodina  â€“ Montenegro Official language Serbian Capital Podgorica Former Royal Capital Cetinje President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Milo Đukanović Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water  13,812 km²  n/a Population  â€“ Total (2003)  â€“ Density  616,258  48. ...

Novokomponovana can be seen as a result of the urbanization of folk music. In its early times, it had a professional approach to performance, uses accordion and clarinet and typically includes love songs or other simple lyrics (though there have long been royalist, anti-Communist and democratic lyrical themes persisting underground). Many of the genre's best performers also play Bosnian sevdalinka music or other forms imported from even further abroad. These include Šaban Šaulić, Toma Zdravković, Predrag Gojković Cune, Miroslav Ilić and Lepa Lukić. At a later stage, the popular performers such as Vesna Zmijanac, Lepa Brena, Dragana Mirković were using more influences from pop music, oriental music, and other genres, which ultimatively led to explosion of turbo-folk. A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... A bass clarinet, which sounds an octave lower than the more common Bb soprano clarinet. ... Sevdalinka is a genre of folk music originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Å aban Å aulić wearing his famous toupèe which he stopped wearing in the late 1990s. ... Toma Zdravković (November 20, 1938, Leskovac — September 30, 1991, Belgrade) was Serbian folk singer. ... Vesna Zmijanac is a Serbian folk singer. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Pop music, in popular and contemporary parlance, is a subgenre of popular music. ...

The era of turbo-folk took place during the war and crisis of 1990s. Turbo-folk used Serbian folk and novokomponovana as the basis, and adding influences from rock and roll, soul, house and garage. Turbo-folk is aggressive and swift, and includes popular performers like Sneki, Nino, Jelena Karleusa and Dragana, though the most well-known is probably Ceca, widow of Željko Ražnatović. Turbo-folk is mostly used as a derrogatory term as the music and its protagonists celebrate kemp, hedonism, and even gangster way of living ("Koka-kola, Marlboro, Suzuki" is one of (in)famous popular song titles of the time). Some musicians used their music to protest against Milošević during the 1990s, such as the Rimtutituki project, while others were seen as having used music and cultural expression to incite extremist nationalist fervor. Turbo-folk is a music genre originating in Serbia in the early 1990s. ... The 1990s refers to the years 1990 to 1999; the last decade of the 20th Century, but in an economical sense The Nineties is often considered to span from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to the September 11 attacks in 2001. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Soul music is a combination of rhythm and blues and gospel which began in the late 1950s in the United States. ... House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. ... Garage is any of several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to house or disco. ... Turbo-folk is a music genre originating in Serbia in the early 1990s. ... Jelena Karleusa,a. ... Svetlana Ceca Raznatovic is one of the most popular folk pop female singers in todays Serbia and Montenegro. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević, on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević â–¶ (help· info) (Serbian: Слободан Милошевић, pronounced []; born 20 August 1941) is a former President of Serbia and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as well as leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia. ...

There are many rock bands that exist since 1970s and 1980s. The first formidable Yugoslav rock bands were Smak, Time, YU-Grupa and Korni-Grupa. The "Golden age" of Yugoslav rock music occurred during 1980s when Belgrade's New Wave music bands, such as Idoli, Šarlo Akrobata and Električni orgazam, Disciplina Kičme, Ekatarina Velika and Partibrejkers, drew new frontiers in musical expression. Their music is listened to mainly by the young urban population. Today, the most famous mainstream performers include Riblja Corba, Bajaga i Instruktori and Van Gogh, while Rambo Amadeus and Darkwood Dub are the most prominent musicians in "alternative" scene. The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... The 1980s, in its most obvious sense, was the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... Time was formed in 1971 by Adolf Dado Topić (vocals) after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. ... The 1980s, in its most obvious sense, was the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... [[Image:|Location of Belgrade]] Mayor Nenad Bogdanović Area 359. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian, British, Canadian and European popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City punk rock scene, itself... Idoli is a new wave (pop art) band, officially founded on 1 March 1980 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. ... Å arlo akrobata (Koja, Milan and Vd), fall 1980 Å arlo Akrobata were a seminal Yugoslav rock band often categorized as late punk or new wave, with a particularly arty attitude. ... Električni orgazam Električni orgazam were formed in 1980, originally as punk band. ... Disciplina Kičme, currently working under the slightly altered name of Disciplin A Kitschme, was one of two spin-offs of the seminal Belgrade post-punk/new-wave band Å arlo Akrobata, the other being Ekatarina Velika. ... EKV in 1986: Milan, Firchie, Bojan, Margita Ekatarina Velika (Catherine the Great, named after Catherine II of Russia, also called EKV for short) was one of the most successful and influential rock/New Wave bands from Yugoslavia. ... The Partibrejkers are a garage rock band from Belgrade, sometimes cited as the founders of YU garage rock. ... Bajaga i Instruktori (Serbian: Бајага и Инструктори; trans: “Bajaga and the Instructors”) are a highly popular rock band from Serbia and Montenegro. ... The band Van Gogh is a highly successful rock music group from Serbia and Montenegro. ... Rambo Amadeus in concert action. ... Darkwood Dub is an art rock band from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ...

Pop music has been catching up with the popularity of folk in recent years. Newer artists that perform this kind of music include: Vlado Georgijev, Negative, Madame Piano, Orthodox Celts, Ana Stanić, Night Shift, and Željko Joksimović who was runner-up in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , along with old stars Đorđe Balašević and Zdravko Čolić. Orthodox Celts are a band from Belgrade, Serbia playing Irish Music. ... Željko Joksimović (Serbian: Жељко Јоксимовић) (born 20 April 1972) is one of the most popular singers of Serbia and Montenegro, but is also well-known in Croatia, Bosnia and nearby countries. ... Eurovision Song Contest 2004 logo. ... ĐorÄ‘e BalaÅ¡ević (Ђорђе Балашевић) is a prominent Serbian songwriter and singer. ... Zdravko ÄŒolić, born May 30, 1951 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is a Bosnian popstar residing in Serbia, popular all over the former Yugoslavia. ...

There are also numerous hip-hop bands and artists, mostly from Belgrade but other cities as well: GRU, 187, C-Ya, Beogradski Sindikat. 187 is the numeric code for the crime of murder used by law-enforcement officials, particularly in the state of California. ... Beogradski Sindikat (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдски Синдикат, en: Belgrade Syndicate) is a popular eight-member hip-hop collective from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. ...

Brass bands are extremely popular, especially in southern and central Serbia. This tradition is now dominated by Gypsy musicians who achieve sometimes great popularity; Fejat Sejdić, Bakija Bakić and Boban Marković are the biggest names in modern brass band bandleaders. The Lochgelly Band, a Scottish colliery band, circa 1890 A brass band is a musical group consisting mostly of brass instruments, often with a percussion section. ... The Roma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English, and as Tsigany in most of Europe. ...

Folk music

Pure folk music includes a two-beat dance called kolo, which is a circle dance with almost no movement above the waist, accompanied by instrumental music made most often with a accordion, but also with other instruments: frula (traditional kind of a recorder), tamburica, or harmonica. Modern accordionists include Mirko Kodić and Ljubiša Pavković. Kolo is a collective folk dance, where a group of people (usually several dozen, at the very least three) hold each other by the hands or around the waist dancing, ideally in a circle, hence the name. ... Circle dance, is the most common name for a style of dance usually done in a circle without partners to musical accompaniment. ... A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... Various recorders The recorder is a flute-like woodwind musical instrument. ... The tamburitza (tamburica; diminutive of tambura) is the most popular instrument in Croatian and Serbian folk music. ... A harmonica A harmonica is a very common free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, French harp,tin sandwhich, blues harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot...

Sung epic poetry has been an integral part of Balkan music for centuries, but is now found mostly in Montenegro; see Serbian epic poetry. These long poems are typically accompanied on a one-string fiddle called the gusle, and concern themselves with subjects such as Kraljević Marko or the battle of Kosovo Polje. More modern subjects include various celebrities and current events. The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature. ... Songs of Serbian epic poetry rarely, if ever, rhyme, but they are easy to remember as each line has exactly ten syllables and caesura after fourth syllable. ... Serbian Gusle The Gusle or gusla (Serbian: Гусле, Bulgarian: Гусла, Croatian: Gusle) is a single-stringed instrument used in the Balkans and on the Dinarides area. ... Prince Marko (also rendered King Marko in English; Serbian Kraljević Marko, Bulgarian Krali Marko) (around 1335 — 1395) was son of king VukaÅ¡in, who ruled in modern day central Macedonia, with capital in Prilep. ... Combatants Ottoman Empire Serbia, Bosnia Commanders Murad I with his sons Bayazid I and Yakub Lazar Hrebeljanović, Vuk Branković, Vlatko Vuković Strength 140,000 70,000 Casualties Murad I Lazar The Battle of Kosovo Polje (Косовска битка or Битка на Косову) was fought on St. ...

The Vlach minority in northeastern Serbia is related to Romanians. Popular music is most closely related to the people of Wallachia in Romania, while traditional music shows a wide range of influences. Vlachs (also called Wlachs, Wallachs, Olahs) are the Romanized population in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romanians, Aromanians, Istro-Romanians and Megleno-Romanians, but since the creation of the Romanian state, this term was mostly used for the Vlachs living south of the Danube river. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ...

See also

• Music of Serbia
• Music of Montenegro
• Music of Kosovo
• Music of Vojvodina

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References

• Burton, Kim. "Balkan Beats". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp 273-276. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1-85828-636-0

External links

• Open Directory Project: Music of Serbia and Montenegro
• Project Rastko category (some text in English, RealAudio church choirs)
• Nostalgija.com - a heap of MP3s (site in Serbian)
• Pticice - a free MP3 album of native Serbian music
• Zeljko Joksimovic Official Website
• Goga Sekulic Official Website
• City Records
• Kiss Radio