Greek Wedding Money Dance

[Papastratosels26]

Traditional music from Macedonia

https://youtu.be/sy3qU5FGs_s
https://youtu.be/r4t0j02ji4M

[Tauromachos]

This..

No not this

Get some education and learn to behave you peasant

[Papastratosels26]

https://youtu.be/PAWeyMqiHsI

https://youtu.be/ClJ3wLNRSfU

[Dorian]

No not this

Get some education and learn to behave you peasant

Quote Originally Posted by SuperDorian View Post
Ade gamisu gie poutanas

[Tauromachos]

Quote Originally Posted by SuperDorian View Post
Ade gamisu gie poutanas

Ade gamisu gie poutanas

[Tauromachos]

But when it comes for folk music, neither Greek mainland nor Aegean Greece (islands) have oriental music, you can rather find only byzantine, Italian and Slavic related music

There is no Slavic related music anywhere in Greece with the exception of maybe a few parts
of Northern Greece

Byzantine and Italian,yes

Oriental music as folklore is common only among anatolians and some Cypriots,

Cypriot music is not oriental
If you ever listen to real oriental folklore for example Lebanese you will understand.
Also the music in the second video the Turk posted in this thread does sound Cypriot
or Aegean Island like but the custom of throwing money is modern and not part of the folklore
there as you can see in the traditional Cypriot dances i posted.

Nowhere was money thrown

[Dorian]

There is no Slavic related music anywhere in Greece with the exception of maybe a few parts
of Northern Greece

Byzantine and Italian,yes




Cypriot music is not oriental
If you ever listen to real oriental folklore for example Lebanese you will understand.
Also the music in the second video the Turk posted in this thread does sound Cypriot
or Aegean Island like but the custom of throwing money is modern and not part of the folklore
there as you can see in the traditional Cypriot dances i posted.

Nowhere was money thrown

[Dimitri159]

I think it's a Cypriot and maybe a Pontian Greek thing, not completely sure.

The first Greek wedding I went to was half (Cretan) Greek and half Anglo, and I didn't see a money dance at all. I go to my second Greek wedding this May, the husband is from the island Chios and the wife is from Central Greece, so I'll get back to all of you on whether or not there's a money dance.

I notice a lot of other Greeks here do their best at hiding any "eastern"/Balkan element to their culture. I'll make it clear that even if Greeks don't do the money dance, there are still plenty of other Greek wedding traditions that clearly resemble at least some "eastern"/Balkan elements. Like the large drums and the same and/or similar instruments, similar style dances (often with a rag), the same and/or similar food, etc. plus not to mention how LOUD AND WILD they are!

[Dimitri159]

I don't know if this is any Greek American fashion, but since I live in Greece and have been in many weddings I can ensure you that it doesn't exist, though it looks nice

As for the picture, you don't have to be an anthropology master to understand that they are not Greek

The particular custom exists in middle east (including turkey) and Jews, but it may exist in Greek American community, as Greek Americans interacted with Mena people, because of both sharing NE American states as their main choice of settlement

The only Greek Americans and/or Canadians that do it are of Pontian or Cypriot Greek origin.

And it's not something that (Ashkenazi) Jews do either. Maybe Israeli Jews (because Mizrahi or Yemenite Jews), but not Ashkenazis in the West. I notice people on TA over-estimate the "easterness" of Jews, but they're dead wrong. I live near a Jewish community so I know.

[Tauromachos]

Anyway this thread is stupid