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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