Bill Wagner wrote:
 > The Smithsonian Folkways catalog also contains Dances of
the World's
 > Peoples, Vol. 1: Dances of the Balkans and Near East, as
well as Vol. 4
 > which is Middle Eastern.
 >
 > Typing "Balkan Music" into the Excite search engine
brought up a great
 > wealth of sites for anyone interested.
 >
 > Bill Wagner
 
 I was making my own, personal, recommendations based on
years of  (dubious) experience as a Balkan musician and
balkan music-addict. Their have been many collections that
are just some stuff someone recorded on a portable tape
recorder, and others that are weird popular  music--There is
one collection on a bargain label  called Belly Dance Music,
that is actually a really great collection of Serbian dance
music.
 
Beware of  search engines! They are distinctly lacking in
taste.
 
Ted
 
 
 
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