Talk:Polka

message: It says in the beginning that polka is a popular folk dance in Poland. Is it? I have never heard of polka being danced in Poland. It is popular among Poles in the US, but there it is a recently introduced dance (in 40ies) and incorrectly considered as originating in their former fatherland. What a mistake! To my experience with folk culture in middle Europe, the polkas eastern original frontier was along the Stettin/Brno/Vienna/Lubljana line. Polka has been introduced by Czechs to Slovakia (during the last century, as was ice hockey and many other useful things). Czechs have not introduced polka to Poland, and it is absent in Poland!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.231.193.18 (talk) 18:10, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

message: Yes. 92.105.115.63 (talk) 08:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We can use only free examples; we are very strict on the wikipedia:Copyrights. See Wikipedia:Non-free content. I have never done this, but you can use small clips as fair use. Anyway, go ahead, WP:SOFIXIT. We are all volunteers, wikipedia is our hobby. Making a clip requires much more effort than typing a couple lines in a spare minute. Therefore music and video clips are infrequesnt in wikipedia despite their obvious utility. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:08, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: This article needs audio examples!

message: : In the 1980s and 1990s several bands began to combine polka with various rock styles, sometimes referred to as "punk polka", "alternative polka" or "San Francisco-style".
Who?  —Michael Z. 2005-03-20 08:06 Z
Brave Combo is one of those groups I can think of off the top of my head.  Mykar15 20:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget Polkacide (from San Francisco). Were they one of the first to create this genre? In any case, they're incredible. ==ILike2BeAnonymous 17:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: New Orleans' Zydepunks has some polka trown in their mix of Cajun music and zydeco. Zubrowka74 (talk) 14:22, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Punk polka

message: Portal:Dance has been started. Please have a look. --Roland2 12:13, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal:Dance 

message: Why is this in the category :Category:Polish styles of music?  -- Austrian 13:04, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Polish?

message: I just removed this piece of BS:
"A type of dance embodying a subliminal greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation."
Qwe 07:02, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: removed

message: Why is "not to be confused with Polska" mentioned twice in the opening section?  Mentioning it once would seem to be enough.
Bartlantz 03:07, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Polska?

message: Perhaps "piano accordion" ?
Are you talking about the piano or the accordion? The traditional style accordion is easier to use when playing fast polka music since the keys are in optimal order. A piano accordion is slower to play but easier of course for someone familiar with the upright or grand piano.  Shiokumi 08:26, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typical instrument -- piano? 

message: This article needs an addition on non-ballroom polka danced in other parts of the world than the US. // Habj 10:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not only the US 

message: Seems to me that the South American dance known as polca and described in the Styles section might be more closely related to Polska (dance) than Polka, since the polca is described as 3/4 time.  --Theodore Kloba 17:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polca 

message: I am not a Polka expert but I have some suggestions for any Polka expert who's willing to help expand this article.
Some suggestions include:
*create a section on where Polka music originated as well as discuss U.S./Canadian Polka music.
*Created a section on the different styles of Polka music.
*Other well Known Polka songs besides Roll Out the Barrel (Beer Barrel Polka) from the czech writer Jaromír Vejvoda (Škoda lásky).
*Discuss Polka music in pop culture.  
*Explain in more detail what a Polka dance is. Include some pictures if possible of Polka dancers in action.
--Cab88 21:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly agree with Cab88 here.  Could someone add a choreographer's diagram with footprints in numerical order, or a URL link to same?  Hcunn (talk) 16:26, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs expansion 

message: The article was recently changes to state that variations exist in Britain but no references were added.  Also, the article only talks about the Irish variations in the "Styles" section. --HighKing (talk) 23:14, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Several countries are listed -  "Lithuanian, Czech, Croatian, Slovenian, Polish, German, Hungarian, Austrian, Italian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, and Slovakian folk music. Versions are also found in the Nordic countries, Ireland and Latin America, especially Mexico." Most of these are not mentioned elsewhere in the text - so why single out Ireland/UK/British Isles for special treatment? This excuse for the removal of British Isles is one of the most astounding yet. Mister Flash (talk) 23:22, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want to find references for the other countries, be my guest.  I'm dealing with the sentence that starts with "Variations" which are discussed in the "Styles" section.  If you want to tag the rest of the article with a  tag then be my guest.  In the meantime, I'll await your reference. --HighKing (talk) 23:35, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not going to provide any references. You should provide a reference to back up your assertion; that the Polka is not relevant to the UK. Mister Flash (talk) 23:38, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations 

message: Removed "Jim Pekol" from the list of Polka Greats having appeared on The Big Joe Polka Show, Reason: virtually uknown as a performer of Polka music in the United States (outside of the geographic location of his band).  
Updated reference to "The Big Joe Polka Show" (TBJPS) to include information regarding litigation involving RFD-TV and Polka Cassettes of Nebraska (PCN) amid a contractual dispute with regards to PCN's demand and assertion that RFD-TV has aired the program without their authorization, and after the 31 December 2009 contract expiration. Information obtained from "letters of information" provided by both RFD-TV's Patrick Gottsch (personal e-mail sent to approximately 90 persons who corresponded regarding questions about The Big Joe Polka Show), and from a certified mailing sent by PCN to several cable and satellite firms that carry RFD-TV. That mailing contained a statement that TBJPS was "in effect being stolen" from it's creator/owner/producer by RFD-TV due to the fact that it was being broadcast "post-contract" and without acceptance of an extension provision by PCN.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.152.209.93 (talk) 18:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organizations in the United States of America 

message: The article clearly needs better citations, and weasel words are sometimes used to hide this, so I understand the purpose of the inline citations. However, some of those citations don't seem to correspond to this. For example, in "You can hear polka in these countries", the word "you" isn't a missing citation - it refers to the reader. (Although, of course, there should be citations as to which countries one can hear polka in.) 66.31.200.86 (talk) 20:05, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations and Weasel Words 

message: The article states that polka music originated in the mid-19th century.  It later states that polka music appeared in print by the year 1800.  
Perhaps someone with an interest in the history of polka can clarify this.
216.8.122.128 (talk) 10:27, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline in article is self-contradictory. 

message: I would not say polka is a popular dance over so many countries in Eastern Europe (Poland, Latvia, Lithuania..., Russia). Even within the Czech Republic polka is a typical folk dance in the western part of the country, and is not considered as a typical folk dance east of Brno. Polka is definitely not a national folk dance in Slovakia or Poland/Hungary, not speaking of the Baltic states or Russia. But is is popular in Austria and southern Germany (see Doudlebska polka, or Bohemian national Polka, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7O7Lzt8Oo, a typical Czech rhythm ;-)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.176.141.38 (talk) 00:59, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, wikipedia article says this is popular music, not dance. It may also be popular as a performance dance. Yes it used to be popular in Baltic states when I was young. Since popularity to a greater extent is dictated by mass media today, it would be interesting to know about its survival besides folkloric ensembles.  In any case, your remark is appreciated, but can you please provide references to this kind of information? Staszek Lem (talk) 02:05, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polka is a typical czech dance, now populari n Austria and Germany 

message: When I was reading this article, it wasn't always clear to me whether they were referring to the polka dance or polka music or both.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coherent1 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article doesn't always clearly distinguish between the polka dance and polka music 

message: Is Duranguense music a subgenre of Polka? If so, should there be some kind of mention or short explanation about this Chicano style of music? I noticed that it is sometimes referred to as Polka Duranguense. 173.170.95.139 (talk) 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pasito Duranguense 

message: This article needs more on what makes a polka a polka, as opposed to other styles in a 2/4 or cut time. e.g. what diffirentiates the polka from the military march, the concert march, etc.? 98.178.191.34 (talk) 04:57, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style diferentiation 

message: I'll make the same plea that I made at the Klezmer article. Recommended recording, please!: "So much information on Klezmer music, but no pointers to some media examples, namely LPs or CDs, that one could buy or search for at a library. Very disappointing that the article lacks this."Dogru144 (talk) 08:47, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Discography, please!

message: Polka (or polca) is an inmigrant music in Argentina. You will only hear one in a Check/Slovak/Polish themed restaurant or festival. It has nothing to do with paisanos (gaucho actually means outlaw) and much less with "gaucho campeiros" given that "campeiros" is Portuguese. Spanish would be "camperos" but nobody uses that word related to paisanos, and rarely is at all. The whole phrase has been taken from somewhere (ref?) and I believe confuses the "Argentine pampas" with the south of Brasil. Really not the same. 181.165.153.200 (talk) 01:56, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polka in Argentina