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A polka dance. Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in 2 4 originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though generally associated with Czech and Central European culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas. [1]
A street Polka band in Prague, Czech Republic. This is a list of polka artists. It includes notable musicians and musical groups that play polka. Notable artists
Zeman's original Czech lyrics framed the polka as a love song, whereas Brown and Timm's English version framed it as a song celebrating the repeal of Prohibition in the United States. At first the English version of the song was relatively unknown and unpopular, but it gained a great deal of popularity after The Andrews Sisters recorded it in 1939.
Polka dancers at the National Polka Festival in Ennis, TX. Czech-American style polka is found in Texas, Nebraska, and across the rural Midwest. In Texas a distinct Czexan (Texas Czech) sound evolved and has found the most commercial success. The Czexan sound is characterized by an accordion, bass guitar, saxophones and sometimes tubas.
After the war this polka became popular around the world, in German-speaking countries as "Rosamunde". Vejvoda wrote many other hits, such as Kdyby ty muziky nebyly ("If those bands did not exist") and Já ráda tancuju ("I love to dance") but none of them became popular outside of the Czech and German speaking countries.
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The National Polka Festival is an annual parade and festival held in Ennis, Texas celebrating the Czech heritage in the city. The 3-day festival is held every Memorial Day weekend. The 3 fraternal halls offer a lunch or dinner with Czech foods such as klobase (sausage), sauerkraut , and kolache , as well as live entertainment with traditional ...
It features international dance routines (including Czech polka) and comedy. There is a detailed museum tour in the former malt house building of the brewery, mainly explaining the brewing process over the centuries, with original machinery on display, and with taped audio (including English), (fee, reservations needed).