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where's my father when I need him?
know that friends of friends thing? You should do it now and then. Because of it I now know about Azis, a Bulgarian-Rom pop-folk singer who is also, apparently, very demonstrative about being gay.
The style of music is called chalga. I need to remember this. The wikipedia article has some knee-jerk antisoviet bullshit in it -- patently false, in that it claims that chalga was in disrepute during the Soviet era because there was no place for peasant culture in the forward-thinking socialist state. Whether or not chalga was disapproved of by the Soviets (probably that's not incorrect) it wasn't for that reason, as a hallmark of Soviet-style cultural policy was to nurture folk styles and use them for political purposes. There were official and semi-official folk schools all over the landscape, and official
and semi-official folk troupes too. If chalga was disapproved of, it wouldn't be for the peasanty part of it, but the pop part of it.
The style of music is called chalga. I need to remember this. The wikipedia article has some knee-jerk antisoviet bullshit in it -- patently false, in that it claims that chalga was in disrepute during the Soviet era because there was no place for peasant culture in the forward-thinking socialist state. Whether or not chalga was disapproved of by the Soviets (probably that's not incorrect) it wasn't for that reason, as a hallmark of Soviet-style cultural policy was to nurture folk styles and use them for political purposes. There were official and semi-official folk schools all over the landscape, and official
and semi-official folk troupes too. If chalga was disapproved of, it wouldn't be for the peasanty part of it, but the pop part of it.