What genre of music always gets people in your country dancing? For Greece I’d say Ζεϊμπέκικο:
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chunek@reddit
Every year all summer long, there are "gasilske veselice", outdoor village parties organized by voluntary firefighters clubs. They typically have live music, bbq, and a lottery to help support the local firefighters. The music played is almost always polka, maybe some walz here and there, sometimes it also gets into "rock" territory, and when everyone is drunk you can also hear some boomer songs from other exyu countries.
Veseli Ribnčan is a common floor filler, no matter which village you are from.
PlentyBoot5135@reddit
This always looks gay-ish 🤔
Stealthfighter21@reddit
Horo
nasosroukounas@reddit
Zeimpekiko isn't Greek, the refugees brought it from Turkey,my ancestors in the Peloponnese never heard zeimpekiko,tsifteteli or bouzouki before the 1920's
Daniel_the_Hairy_One@reddit
The phrasing makes it seem you do not consider Anatolian Greeks and their culture as Greek.
Unlikely_Cress_9392@reddit
Is the origin of this type of music the main reason why at least one dictator supposedly tried to ban it? I read somewhere that Metaxas either banned it outright or was considering restricting it.
nasosroukounas@reddit
the people in Old Greece (pre 1912) generally despised these oriental tunes and tried to suppress them, especially rempetiko, which was associated with the underworld and cannabis consumption. They became mainstream after WW2 as the refugees became much more integrated and also thanks to artists like Mikis Theodorakis,who manage to merge the bouzouki and that culture with the "high culture" https://youtu.be/TrXeUIeShYk?si=ZYsri5xcfFBTOqbG
JuujiNoMusuko@reddit
Asia Minor greeks are still greek,same as pontic greeks
buraksezer@reddit
Turkish names are Zeybek, Çiftetelli, Buzuki (this one is not Turkish though)
GlitteringLocality@reddit
Polka, always polka.
botchedheart@reddit
it looks a bit similiar to caucasian dances
DescriptionLow5071@reddit
The Macedonians and the Albanians have the most beautiful dances.
Substratas@reddit
https://i.redd.it/8wzah6otkmif1.gif
Kapanol197@reddit
Substratas@reddit
kod8ultimate@reddit
osumanjeiran@reddit
this does it
gulaazad@reddit
Bu videonun Türkiye dışında açılmadığını söyleyeyim 🙂↔️
kod8ultimate@reddit
yooo açlılıyor hemde kollarıda açtırıyor :)
osumanjeiran@reddit
neden ki yahu
Aenjeprekemaluci@reddit
For us its Tallavah.
redikan@reddit
😂😂😂no
marslo@reddit
For Quebec in Canada we have this
https://youtu.be/f1Svjcda-84?si=_ZkXG30giveHZnbX
Fuzzy_Alg@reddit
Because Quebec je Srbija! 🇷🇸
BrickfortBannerman@reddit
Idk if everybody dances, but Narodni and Turbofolk seems to get ex-Yugoslavian people (Serbs, Croats, Bosnians- Herzogs etc) into a dancing mood
mamlazmamlazic@reddit
For Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, some parts of Croatia and i don't know how much of of Macedonia any kolo is most likely to do the trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875nowFAiOk
andreacro@reddit
If T try to speak out loud this word, a I fear it would open the secret passage to Dol Gul-Dur.
Shatter_Their_World@reddit
In Romania manele was the basis, a genre related mostly with Bulgarian chalga, both genre being synth folk, based on Balkanic, Turkish or Middle Eastern tunes. An important difference between them is that the vocal style in Romania comes from Romani folk music. Myself I prefer Metal or Goth music to move, most of the time, but we are a minority. However, I would enjoy more Balkanic Folk Metal, if it existed in here.
starshootersupreme@reddit
I hope many will understand prucka
Discipline_Cautious1@reddit
Teferic
https://www.youtube.com/@bosanski2
Pajacluk@reddit
https://i.redd.it/n2vsvahkekif1.gif
Content-Departure-77@reddit
Nisam ja za rabotu, ja sam za Grcku :)
veleso91@reddit
I remember as a kid, whenever we'd go to Greece on vacation, this type of music immediately started playing on the car radio after crossing the border every single time. It's literally the Greekest thing ever in my mind and weirdly nostalgic whoever I hear it.