turbo-folk
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Turbo-folk () is a subgenre of contemporary South Slavic pop music that initially developed in Serbia during the 1990s as a fusion of techno and folk. The term "turbo-folk" was coined by Montenegrin singer Rambo Amadeus, who jokingly used it to describe an aggressive, satirical style of music. While primarily associated with Serbia, this genre is also popular in other former Yugoslav nations, particularly Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Within Vinony's link graph, turbo-folk is referenced by 943 other articles, and connects out to Slobodan Milošević, contemporary folk music and laïko.
Vinony files it under Folk music genres, Music of Serbia and Serbian styles of music.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Turbo-folk
- Music genre.caption
- A Vice article about turbo-folk, headlined "Music for Idiots", depicting Goga Sekulić performing in a Belgrade nightclub
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- 1980s SFR Yugoslavia
- Music genre.fusiongenres
- Pop-folk
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- Balkan pop-folk
- Country of origin
- Yugoslavia
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- inception
- 1975-01-01
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Croatia
- Central Europe
- Criticism
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Turbo-folk () is a subgenre of contemporary South Slavic pop music that initially developed in Serbia during the 1990s as a fusion of techno and folk. The term "turbo-folk" was coined by Montenegrin singer Rambo Amadeus, who jokingly used it to describe an aggressive, satirical style of music. While primarily associated with Serbia, this genre is also popular in other former Yugoslav nations, particularly Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
==Croatia== Turbo-folk grew in Croatia in part due to the popularity of the Croatian singer Severina's style of fusion music. Turbo-folk is purportedly seen as a "part of everyday life in Croatia and serves a means of social release and reaction to the effects of globalisation in Croatia" according to contemporary art professor Urosh Cvoro of UNSW Sydney.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “turbo-folk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.