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Music of Slovenia

Index Music of Slovenia

In the minds of many foreigners, Slovenian folk music means a form of polka that is still popular today, especially among expatriates and their descendants. [1]

193 relations: A cappella, Abbate, Accademia degli Arcadi, Accordion, Adi Smolar, Africa (Toto song), Album cover, Alojz Geržinič, Alps, Anton Lajovic, Antonio Tarsia (composer), Appropriation (art), Art song, Artist collective, Austria, Avant-garde music, Avsenik Brothers Ensemble, Šank Rock, Benelux, Benjamin Ipavec, Big Foot Mama, Black metal, Božidar Kantušer, Bojan Adamič, Bowed psaltery, Bratko Bibič, Buldožer, Carantania, Carniola, Cello, Cerkno, Christianity, Chromatic scale, Clarinet, Classic Mac OS, Classical music, Coat of arms of Germany, Columbidae, Consul (representative), Controversy, Croatia, Dada, Dan D, Darijan Božič, Dark wave, David Paich, Davorin Jenko, Deathcore, Delo, Devil Doll (Slovenian band), ..., Diplomatic mission, Divje Babe Flute, DJ Umek, Documentary film, Drone zither, Emil Adamič, Eva Sršen, Experimental rock, Fiddle, Film score, Flag of Germany, Folk music, Fran Gerbič, Frane Milčinski, Gaida, German language, Germans, Germany, Hammered dulcimer, Harmony, Hymn, Ideology, Impressionism, Industrial music, Intellectual, IRWIN, Ivo Petrić, Iztok Mlakar, Jacobus Gallus, Jani Kovačič, Jesenice, Jew's harp, Johann Berthold von Höffer, Josip Pavčič, Jurij Slatkonja, Kamilo Mašek, Kitsch, Klopotec, Kontra, Koper, L'Armonia, Laibach, Lied, List of radio stations in Slovenia, List of Slovenian musicians, Ljubljana, Ljubljana Opera House, Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet, Lojze Slak, Lucijan Marija Škerjanc, Magnifico (musician), Marij Kogoj, Martial industrial, Michael Benson (filmmaker), Micronation, Minnesang, Mladina, Nationalism, Nazism, Neca Falk, Negligence (band), Nejc Pačnik, Neue Slowenische Kunst, Niet, Noordung (NSK), Novo Mesto, Opera, Oratorio, Painting, Pan flute, Pankrti, Passport, Perpetuum Jazzile, Peter Lovšin, Plainsong, PlainTalk, Politics, Pop rock, Poster, Predictions of Fire, Primož Ramovš, Progressive rock, Psaltery, Punk rock, Reformation, Renaissance music, Richard Klein (artist), Rock music in Slovenia, Romanticism, Rough Guides, Rubber stamp, Sanremo Music Festival, Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre, Screamo, Seattle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Siddharta (band), Singer-songwriter, Slavko Avsenik, Slavko Osterc, Slavko Osterc Ensemble, Slavoj Žižek, Slovene language, Slovenes, Slovenia, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovenian song festival, Slovenian-style polka, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Sovereign state, Steirische Harmonika, Switzerland, Tambourine, Tamburica, Terrafolk, The New York Times, The New York Times Company, Titoism, Tomaž Pengov, Totalitarianism, Trbovlje, Umag, Upper Carniola, Uroš Krek, Valentino Kanzyani, Vienna Boys' Choir, Vinko Globokar, Vita Mavrič, Vlado Kreslin, Waltz, We shall fight on the beaches, West Germany, Winston Churchill, World music, World War II, YouTube, Yugoslavia, Zablujena generacija, Zaklonišče prepeva, Zither, Zoran Predin, Zorko Prelovec, 1984 in music. Expand index (143 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Abbate

Abbate is an Italian surname.

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Accademia degli Arcadi

The Accademia degli Arcadi or Accademia dell'Arcadia, "Academy of Arcadia" or "Academy of the Arcadians", was an Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690.

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Adi Smolar

Adi Smolar (born 25 March 1959 in Slovenj Gradec, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and composer.

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Africa (Toto song)

"Africa" is a song by the American rock band Toto.

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Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.

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Alojz Geržinič

Alojz Geržinič (11 June 1915 – 26 March 2008) is a Slovenian composer.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Anton Lajovic

Anton Lajovic Anton Lajovic (1878 in Vače – 1960 in Ljubljana) was a Slovenian composer.

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Antonio Tarsia (composer)

Antonio Tarsia (July 28, 1643 – 1722) was an Italian composer.

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Appropriation (art)

Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.

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Art song

An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.

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Artist collective

An artist collective is an initiative that is the result of a group of artists working together, usually under their own management, towards shared aims.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Avsenik Brothers Ensemble

Avsenik Brothers Ensemble (Ansambel bratov Avsenik) (Slavko Avsenik und seine Original Oberkrainer) were a Slovene Oberkrainer music band formed by the brothers Slavko Avsenik and Vilko Avsenik in 1953 in Begunje na Gorenjskem.

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Šank Rock

Šank Rock or Shank Rock, is a five-piece Slovenian rock group from Velenje, formed in 1982.

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Benelux

The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux) is a politico-economic union of three neighbouring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

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Benjamin Ipavec

Benjamin Ipavec (24 December 1829 – 20 December 1908) was one of the foremost Slovene Romantic composers.

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Big Foot Mama

Big Foot Mama is a rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Božidar Kantušer

Božidar Kantušer (Bozidar Kantuser) (December 5, 1921, Pavlovski Vrh, Slovenia – May 9, 1999, Paris, France) was a Slovene composer of classical music.

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Bojan Adamič

Bojan Adamič a.k.a. Master (Mojster; 9 August 1912 – 3 November 1995), Slovene Partisans nom de guerre Gregor, was a well-known Slovene composer of jazz, the Slovenian song festival music, and particularly film scores.

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Bowed psaltery

The bowed psaltery is a type of psaltery or zither that is played with a bow.

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Bratko Bibič

Bratko Bibič (born 1957) is a Slovenian accordionist.

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Buldožer

Buldožer (trans. Bulldozer) was a Yugoslav-Slovenian progressive rock band from the 1970s and 1980s.

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Carantania

Carantania, also known as Carentania (Karantanija, Karantanien, in Old Slavic *Korǫtanъ), was a Slavic principality that emerged in the second half of the 7th century, in the territory of present-day southern Austria and north-eastern Slovenia.

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Carniola

Carniola (Slovene, Kranjska; Krain; Carniola; Krajna) was a historical region that comprised parts of present-day Slovenia.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Cerkno

Cerkno (Circhina, Kirchheim) is a small town in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Classic Mac OS

Classic Mac OS is a colloquial term used to describe a series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Inc. from 1984 until 2001.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Coat of arms of Germany

The coat of arms of Germany displays a black eagle with a red beak, tongue and feet on a golden field, which is blazoned: Or, an eagle displayed sable beaked langued and membered gules.

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Columbidae

Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.

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Consul (representative)

A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the two countries.

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Controversy

Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

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Dan D

Dan D (meaning D-Day in Slovene) is a popular Slovenian rock band that has been formed in 1996 in Novo Mesto and has published five albums till now.

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Darijan Božič

Darijan Božič (born in Slavonski Brod, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia) on April 29, 1933) is a Slovenian composer and conductor.

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Dark wave

Dark wave is a music genre that emerged from the new wave and post-punk movement of the late 1970s.

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David Paich

David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954) is an American keyboardist, singer, composer, recording producer, and arranger, best known for his work with the rock band Toto.

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Davorin Jenko

Davorin Jenko, (born Martin Jenko; 9 November 1835 – 25 November 1914) was a Slovene and Serbian composer.

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Deathcore

Deathcore is an extreme metal fusion genre that combines musical elements of death metal and metalcore and sometimes hardcore punk.

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Delo

Delo (Labour) is a national daily newspaper in Slovenia.

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Devil Doll (Slovenian band)

Devil Doll is an Italian-Slovenian experimental rock band formed in 1987 by the mysterious "Mr. Doctor".

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Diplomatic mission

A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from one state or an organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation officially in the receiving state.

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Divje Babe Flute

The Divje Babe Flute is a cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes that was found in 1995 at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia.

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DJ Umek

Uroš Umek (born May 16, 1976), better known as DJ Umek or simply Umek, is a Slovenian dance music composer and DJ.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Drone zither

Drone zithers or droned zithers are stringed instruments of the zither family that have few (sometimes only one) melodic strings and a greater number of drone strings.

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Emil Adamič

Emil Adamič (December 25, 1877 – December 6, 1936) was among the most productive Slovenian composers.

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Eva Sršen

Eva Sršen (born 1951 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian singer, who had a short career in Yugoslav pop music in the first half of the 1970s.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Flag of Germany

The flag of Germany or German Flag (Flagge Deutschlands) is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold (Schwarz-Rot-Gold).

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Fran Gerbič

Fran Gerbič Fran Gerbič (5 October 1840, Cerknica – 29 March 1917, Ljubljana) was a Slovenian composer and operatic tenor.

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Frane Milčinski

Frane Milčinski (pen name Ježek; 14 December 1914 – 27 February 1988) was a Slovene poet, satirist, humorist and comedian, actor, children's writer, and director.

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Gaida

A gaida is a bagpipe from the Balkans and Southeast Europe.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Ideology

An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about society and proposes solutions for its normative problems.

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IRWIN

IRWIN is a collective of Slovenian artists, primarily painters, and an original founding member of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK).

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Ivo Petrić

Ivo Petrić (born 16 June 1931) is a Slovenian composer of European classical music.

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Iztok Mlakar

Iztok Mlakar (born 21 June 1961) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor.

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Jacobus Gallus

Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl, Jacob(us) Gallus; Jakob Petelin Kranjski) (3 July 1550 – 18 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of SloveneSkei/Pokorn, Grove online ethnicity.

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Jani Kovačič

Jani Kovačič (born 14 June 1992) is a Slovenian male volleyball player.

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Jesenice

Jesenice (AsslingLeksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 144.) is a Slovenian town and the seat of the Municipality of Jesenice on the southern side of the Karawanks, bordering Austria to the north.

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Jew's harp

The Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

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Johann Berthold von Höffer

Johann Berthold von Höffer (born in Ljubljana on 24 July 1667 - died 1718) was a nobleman from Ljubljana, and an amateur Slovenian composer.

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Josip Pavčič

Josip Pavčič (Velike Lašče 18 July 1870 - Ljubljana 24 September 1949) was a Slovenian composer and organist.

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Jurij Slatkonja

Jurij Slatkonja (Georg von Slatkonia, also Jurij Chrysippus, Slovenian: Jurij Slatkonja; 21 March 1456 – 26 April 1522) was a Carniolan choirmaster and the first residential Bishop of Vienna.

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Kamilo Mašek

Kamilo Mašek (1831 – 1859) was a Slovenian of Czech descent and music composer.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German), also called cheesiness or tackiness, is art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes.

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Klopotec

A klopotec (pronounced) is a wooden mechanical device on a high wooden pole, similar to a windmill.

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Kontra

A kontra is a Hungarian (Hungarian: háromhúros brácsa, ‘three-stringed viola’), Czech, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Romani instrument common in Transylvania.

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Koper

Koper (Capodistria) is a city in southwestern Slovenia, with the other Slovenian coastal towns Ankaran, Izola, Piran, and Portorož, situated along the country's 47-kilometre coastline, in the Istrian Region, approximately five kilometres from its border with Italy.

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L'Armonia

L'Armonia was an Italian language newspaper established in Turin in July 1848.

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Laibach

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres.

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Lied

The lied (plural lieder;, plural, German for "song") is a setting of a German poem to classical music.

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List of radio stations in Slovenia

The following is a list of radio stations in Slovenia.

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List of Slovenian musicians

A list of notable Slovene musicians by instrument.

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Ljubljana

Ljubljana (locally also; also known by other, historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia.

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Ljubljana Opera House

The Ljubljana Opera House (Opera, or ljubljanska operna hiša) is an opera house in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

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Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet

The Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet (Slovensko narodno gledališče Opera in balet Ljubljana, SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana), or shortly Ljubljana SNG Opera and Ballet, is Slovenia's national opera and ballet company.

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Lojze Slak

Lojze Slak (23 July 1932 – 29 September 2011) was a Slovenian musician.

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Lucijan Marija Škerjanc

Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (December 17, 1900 – February 27, 1973) was a Slovene composer, music pedagogue, conductor, musician, and writer who was accomplished on and wrote for a number of musical instruments such as the piano, violin and clarinet.

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Magnifico (musician)

Robert Pešut (born 1 December 1965), known as Magnifico, is a Slovenian singer of Slovene and Serbian descent.

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Marij Kogoj

Marij Kogoj Marij (Julij) Kogoj (Trieste, 20 September 1892 – Ljubljana, 25 February 1956) was a Slovenian composer.

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Martial industrial

Martial industrial is a syncretic offshoot of industrial music characterized by noise, dark ambient atmospheres, neofolk melodies, dark wave tunes and neoclassical orchestrations as well as the incorporation of audio from military marches, historical speeches and political, apolitical or metapolitical lyrics.

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Michael Benson (filmmaker)

Michael Benson (born March 31, 1962) is an American artist, writer, filmmaker, and exhibitions producer.

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Micronation

A micronation, sometimes referred to as a model country or new country project, is an entity that claims to be an independent nation or state but is not recognized by world governments or major international organizations.

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Minnesang

Minnesang ("love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany that flourished in the Middle High German period.

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Mladina

Mladina is a Slovenian weekly left-wing current affairs magazine.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Neca Falk

Marjetka "Neca" Falk (born 19 June 1950) is a Slovenian pop singer.

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Negligence (band)

Negligence is a Slovenian thrash metal band, formed in 2000.

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Nejc Pačnik

Nejc Pačnik (born October 28, 1990) is a Slovenian diatonic button accordion, an accordion world-champion and accordion teacher.

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Neue Slowenische Kunst

Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning "New Slovenian Art"), a.k.a. NSK, is a controversial political art collective that formed in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.

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Niet

Niet is a former punk rock and hardcore punk band from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Noordung (NSK)

Noordung (also Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung) are a Slovenian theatre group; founded in 1983 under the name of Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre they were, in 1984, a founding member of the Neue Slowenische Kunst collective.

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Novo Mesto

Novo Mesto (Novo mesto; also known by other alternative names) is the city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Pan flute

The pan flutes (also known as panpipes or syrinx) are a group of musical instruments based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).

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Pankrti

Pankrti (The Bastards in Slovene) are a punk rock band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active in the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Passport

A passport is a travel document, usually issued by a country's government, that certifies the identity and nationality of its holder primarily for the purpose of international travel.

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Perpetuum Jazzile

Perpetuum Jazzile is a Slovenian musical group, best known for a 2009 ''a cappella'' cover of Toto's ''"Africa"'' performance video that has received more than 20 million YouTube views as of August 2017.

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Peter Lovšin

Peter "Pero" Lovšin (born June 27, 1955) is a Slovenian musician, songwriter and singer, best known as a frontman of the first Yugoslav punk rock group Pankrti.

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Plainsong

Plainsong (also plainchant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church.

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PlainTalk

PlainTalk is the collective name for several speech synthesis (MacinTalk) and speech recognition technologies developed by Apple Inc. In 1990, Apple invested a lot of work and money in speech recognition technology, hiring many researchers in the field.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Poster

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface.

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Predictions of Fire

Predictions of Fire or Prerokbe ognja is a 1996 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Benson about Neue Slowenische Kunst.

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Primož Ramovš

Primož Ramovš (March 20, 1921 – January 10, 1999) was a Slovenian composer and librarian.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Psaltery

Psaltery 1700 – Venitian school A psaltery (or sawtry) is a stringed instrument of the zither family.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Reformation

The Reformation (or, more fully, the Protestant Reformation; also, the European Reformation) was a schism in Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther and continued by Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and other Protestant Reformers in 16th century Europe.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era.

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Richard Klein (artist)

Richard Klein (1890–1967) was a German artist, known for his patriotic work as a medallist from the start of World War I in 1914, and mainly for his work as a favoured artist of the Nazi regime.

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Rock music in Slovenia

Rock and roll is a musical genre from the United States, popularized worldwide beginning in the 1950s.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Rough Guides

Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications.

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Rubber stamp

Rubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber.

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Sanremo Music Festival

The Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo (in English: Italian song festival of Sanremo) is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Liguria, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs.

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Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre

The Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre (Gledališče sester Scipion Nasice) was founded on October 13, 1983, with a founding manifesto (The Sister Letter).

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Screamo

Screamo (also referred to as skramz) is an aggressive style of emo that emerged in the early 1990s, combining musical intensity with "willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics."Jason Heller, "Feast of Reason".

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Siddharta (band)

Siddharta is a five-piece Slovenian alternative rock band formed in 1995.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Slavko Avsenik

Slavko Avsenik (November 26, 1929 – July 2, 2015) was a Slovene composer and musician.

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Slavko Osterc

Slavko Osterc (17 June 1895 – 23 May 1941), was a Slovenian composer.

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Slavko Osterc Ensemble

The Slavko Osterc Ensemble (Ansambel Slavko Osterc) was a Slovenian chamber orchestra formed under the direction of Ivo Petrič in 1962.

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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian continental philosopher.

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Slovene language

Slovene or Slovenian (slovenski jezik or slovenščina) belongs to the group of South Slavic languages.

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Slovenes

The Slovenes, also called as Slovenians (Slovenci), are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Slovenia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovenian as their first language.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene:, abbr.: RS), is a country in southern Central Europe, located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes.

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Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

The Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra (Simfonični orkester Slovenske filharmonije) is a Slovenian orchestra based in Ljubljana.

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Slovenian song festival

Slovenian song festival (In Slovene: Slovenska popevka) was a Slovenian music festival dedicated to a music genre known as Slovenian song ("popevka") that was most popular during the 1960s and 1970s and had a similarly high standing in Slovene culture as did the Sanremo Music Festival in Italian culture.

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Slovenian-style polka

Slovenian-style polka (also known as Cleveland Style polka) is an American style of polka in the Slovenian tradition.

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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia or SFRY) was a socialist state led by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is, in international law, a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralized government that has sovereignty over a geographic area.

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Steirische Harmonika

The Steirische Harmonika is a type of bisonoric diatonic button accordion important to the alpine folk music of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, the German state of Bavaria, and the Italian South Tyrol.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".

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Tamburica

Tamburica or Tamboura (Tamburica, Tamburica, Тамбурица, meaning "little Tamboura"; Tambura; Ταμπουράς, sometimes written tamburrizza or tamburitza) refers to a family of long-necked lutes popular in Southern Europe and Central Europe, especially Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia (especially Vojvodina), Slovenia, and Hungary.

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Terrafolk

Terrafolk in concert (2007) Terrafolk is a Slovenian folk band.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.

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Titoism

Titoism is described as the post-World War II policies and practices associated with Josip Broz Tito during the Cold War, characterized by an opposition to the Soviet Union.

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Tomaž Pengov

Tomaž Pengov (1949 – 10 February 2014) was a Slovenian singer-songwriter, guitarist, lutist, and poet.

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Totalitarianism

Benito Mussolini Totalitarianism is a political concept where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to control every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

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Trbovlje

Trbovlje (TrifailLeksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 4: Štajersko. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 58.) is Slovenia's ninth largest town, and the seat of the Municipality of Trbovlje.

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Umag

Umag (Umago) is a coastal city in Istria, Croatia.

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Upper Carniola

Upper Carniola (Gorenjska; Alta Carniola; Oberkrain) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region.

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Uroš Krek

Uroš Krek (May 21, 1922 – May 3, 2008) was a Slovenian composer, considered one of the most renowned personalities of Slovenian music after the Second World War.

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Valentino Kanzyani

Tine Kocjančič, better known as Valentino Kanzyani is a Slovenian techno deejay and music producer.

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Vienna Boys' Choir

The Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) or Vienna Choir Boys is a choir of boy sopranos and altos based in Vienna, Austria.

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Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.

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Vita Mavrič

Vita Mavrič is a Slovene female chansonnier.

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Vlado Kreslin

Vlado Kreslin (born 29 November 1953) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and folk rock musician.

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Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in time, performed primarily in closed position.

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We shall fight on the beaches

"We shall fight on the beaches" is a common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.

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Zablujena generacija

Zablujena generacija (Delusive or Stray generation) is a Slovene "saloon" punk - alternative rock musical group from Idrija.

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Zaklonišče prepeva

Zaklonišče Prepeva in concert Zaklonišče Prepeva (Air-raid Shelter Singing) is a Slovenian rock band from Nova Gorica.

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Zither

Zither is a class of stringed instruments.

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Zoran Predin

Zoran Predin (born 16 June 1958) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter from Maribor.

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Zorko Prelovec

Zorko Prelovec was a Slovene composer, well known for his choral works and Lieder.

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1984 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Slovenia

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