Folk-rock

Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music.

Elsewhere in Europe and the Mediterranean

In Romania Transsylvania Phoenix (known in Romania simply as Phoenix), founded in 1962, introduced significant folk elements into their rock music around 1972 in an unsuccessful attempt to compromise with government repression of rock music. The attempt failed, and they ended up in exiled during much of the Ceau?escu era, but much of their music still retains a folk-rock sound. The present-day bands Spitalul de Urgenţă (Romanian) and Zdob şi Zdub (Moldova) also both merge folk and rock.

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Romania - Transsylvania Phoenix - Ceau?escu - Spitalul de Urgenţă - Zdob şi Zdub - Moldova

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Other fusions of folk and rock include New Flamenco (Spain), the pop-oriented forms of North African raï music, and in the music of The Pogues and the Dropkick Murphys, both of whom draw on traditional Irish music and punk rock.

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New Flamenco - Spain - Raï - The Pogues - Dropkick Murphys - Traditional Irish music - Punk rock

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Turkey, during the 1970s and 1980s, also sustained a vibrant folk-rock scene, drawing inspirations from diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thrived in a culture of intense political strife, with musicians in nationalist and Marxist camps. See Music of Turkey.

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1970s - 1980s - Anatolia - Balkans - Black Sea - Nationalist - Marxist - Music of Turkey

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