Chalga | Balkan Culture Vocabulary Clarification

Chalga is a Bulgarian word for a Balkan Phenomenon:

I just wanted to quickly clarify that Chalga is the Bulgarian term for similar pop music throughout the Balkans. Chalga can sometimes be called

• Manele (Romania),
• Pop-Folk (Bulgaria),
• Laïka (Greece),
• Turbo-Folk (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian)
• And other names in other countries but I don't want to spread my definition too thin.

Generally, the genres are very similar: Women in minimal amounts of clothes, simple lyrics at appeal to a large mass and music influences all over the world. So when referring to Chalga one must make a distinction between popular "Chalga" or Pop Folk and more traditional Chalga music from the past (wedding music, roma music).

I hope to give some more examples of Chalga or Pop Folk later on this month in the Daily Dose . I just don't want to confuse the music too much.