Why is Slavic music always being passed off as Gypsy music?

**rashka** · 04-28-2013, 04:45 PM

Every time I see a documentary or commercial on TV about gypsies I hear Balkan music in the background, specifically Yugoslav and Bulgarian music. But this is not the music of the gypsies! It is Slavic music!

I saw one documentary about the gypsies in Romania and they started the show off with very distinct Balkan music.

The gypsies do play this wonderfully 'distinct' sound often at weddings, at festivals, in the streets, at parties etc. and are hired for those events but it is not their music and should not be stamped as such. They tend to have a different mode of music than that of the slavs however they have adopted Balkan music into their own styles.

**Loki** · 04-28-2013, 04:46 PM

lol good question ... cultural influence?

**baraSYR** · 04-28-2013, 04:52 PM

simple Mistakes

**~~Szegedist~~** · 04-28-2013, 04:56 PM

**Lena** · 04-28-2013, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Loki

lol good question ... cultural influence?

Nah, people are just a bunch of ignoramuses when it comes to many things, music and culture is not an exception.

Enjoy, Loki

it's in Romani lang. (not to be confused with RomaniAN lang pls)

**~~Arianiti~~** · 04-28-2013, 04:57 PM

Many serbian composers and singers have become famous with Gypsy songs, like Bregovic with song Ederlezi. You have used their culture too.

Sang by an Albanian singer in roma culture show

**morski** · 04-28-2013, 04:58 PM

I don't make any distinction between Serbian Turbofolk/Bulgarian Chalga and Gypsy music.

**~~Szegedist~~** · 04-28-2013, 04:59 PM

Anyway, because Balkan pop (Chalga, Manele, Turbofolk) does sound a bit like Gypsy music.

Edit: Damn, Morski beat me to it.

**Alenka** · 04-28-2013, 04:59 PM

Just because (some) Slavs consider certain music as theirs does not mean it is completely Slavic derived. Actually, I would say it is rather foreign to Slavic urheimat countries like Poland and Ukraine. Music in the area of Balkans is a blend of many different influences, Slavic being only one of them. Another one of them is Gypsy. Gypsy music influenced many areas that they migrated through, Balkans being no exception.