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In the South Eastern region of Europe, lays a small country named Romania. Its music has been greatly influenced by its neighbors like Hungary and Serbia on the west, Bulgaria in south and Moldova and Ukraine in the northeast. The influence of these countries has managed to produce a beautiful musical tradition in Romania.
Romania is a multi-cultural country with 90 percent of the population is indigenous people whereas rest of the 10 percent has a mix of Germans, Hungarians and Gypsy community.
The most popular form of music in the country is folk music. It is not only popular inside the country but also in several other parts of the world. The country truly reflects effects of other cultures assimilated with its own in form of eclectic range of music spread across the length and breadth of the country.
The global fame of Romanian folk music is because of varied range of styles found in folk tradition. Some popular folk styles inclue, oltenia, doina, Moldavia, banat, Bucovina, Transylvania, wallachia, muntenia, crisana, oas and doina. Among all these styles, doina is the most popular one.
The special thing about doina is the way it is performed. Instrumental style is used to perform this slow and soft ballad.
Free rhythmic pattern is used in the performance. The themes of the music is often emotional like, sadness, pain, belongingness etc. Moreover, this is not a fixed style.
Different ethnic groups can have their own interpretations and performance criteria. Doina is accompanied by double bass, violin and viola. Country has a rich presence in other genres as well.
Popular genres include, Manga pop, pop, dance, electronic, hip hop, heavy metal, Folk-rock, Rap, Jazz, Acid jazz, fusion and rock and roll. Popular names in Romania musical world consists of Fanfare Ciocarlia, Romano Drom, Mahala Rai Banda, Taraf Ionel Budisteanu, Nightlosers, Nomads Land and Okros Ensemble.
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