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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.
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