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Trad jazz short for traditional jazz refers to the Dixieland and Ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century which typically used a front line of trumpet clarinet and trombone […]

Tatarstan is an autonomous republic within Russia where the largest ethnic group are the Tatars. Their traditional music is a mixture of Turkic and Finno-Ugric elements reportedly bridging Mongolian and […]

Tuva is a part of Russia inhabited by a Turkic people related to the nearby Mongolians. Tuvans are known abroad for khoomei (xöömej) a kind of overtone singing.Traditionally music from […]

Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. In the 1940s the African Broadcasting Service […]

Wassoulou is a genre of West African popular music named after the region of Wassoulou. It is performed mostly by women using lyrics that address women’s issues regarding childbearing fertility […]

Celtic music is primarily associated with the folk traditions of Ireland Scotland Brittany and Wales as well as the popular styles derived from folk culture. In addition a number of […]

Rebetiko plural rebetika (Greek: ρεμπέτικο pronounced [reˈbetiko] and ρεμπέτικα respectively) occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music which […]

Pimba is a Portuguese term for a variety of popular Portuguese pop and folk solo singers and bands possibly inspired by Schlager who focus on simplistic catchy songs with rough […]

Christmas themes have long been an inspiration to artists writers and weavers of folklore. Moviemakers have picked up on this wealth of material with both adaptations of literary classics and […]

The field of slope stability encompasses the analysis of static and dynamic stability of slopes of earth and rock-fill dams slopes of other types of embankments excavated slopes and natural […]