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Croatian dance varies by region, and can be found in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. The traditional kolo is a circle dance , a relatively simple dance common throughout other Slavic countries in which dancers follow each other around the circle.
The pop music of Croatia generally resembles the canzone music of Italy, while including elements of the native traditional music. Croatian record companies produce much material each year, if only to populate the numerous music festivals. Of special note is the Split Festival which usually produces the most popular summer hits.
Their first recorded song was "Podravino moja mila", followed by "Potočić maleni", "Alaj je divan taj podravski kraj" and a polka "Ruža, ruža". Lenger retired in 1977 but never stopped singing. He was a member to the day he died of a singing group from Podravske Sesvete named after him, Blaž Lenger.
Polka is popular in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the "Beer Barrel Polka" is played during the seventh-inning stretch and halftime of Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks games. [17] Polka is also the official state dance of Wisconsin. [18] The United States Polka Association is a non-profit organization based in Cleveland, Ohio. [19]
Balkan folk music is the traditional folk music within Balkan region.In South Slavic languages, it is known as narodna muzika (народна музика) or folk muzika (фолк музика) in Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian, and alternatively narodna glazba in standard Croatian, and narodna glasba in Slovene.
Who Stole the Kishka?, originally spelled "Who Stole the Keeshka?", is a polka song written by Walter Dana (music) [1] and Walter Solek (lyrics). [2] [3] [4] It has been recorded and performed by various bands. One popular version was familiar to American radio audiences from a 1963 recording by the Grammy award–winning polka artist Frankie ...
Pages in category "Croatian folk music" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
When Herr Schaub's page features either, his Polka will usually sound to me like a USA Schottisch and his Schottisch will sound to me more like a Croatian Polka. (Musing: Linguistically we may take a Czech or German's word and 'blame' the Polka on the Poles, just like we take a Breton's word and 'blame' the Schottische on the Scots.