Folk-pop
Folk-pop is a musical style that may be 1) contemporary folk songs with large, sweeping pop arrangements, or 2) pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements. Folk-pop developed during the 1960s folk music and folk rock boom. Folk pop is found in many regions. United States. Simon and Garfunkel, Seals and Crofts, Don McLean, Jim Croce, Lobo, and England Dan & John Ford Coley recorded folk pop songs. Balkan region. In the Balkans region of southeastern Europe, "pop-folk" is an umbrella term for genres of Balkan popular music that blend pop, folk, and ethnic music . It is the modern counterpart of Balkan folk music, in which the dominant rhythms are influenced by oriental music, especially Arabic music and Romani folk music. Much of this music could be defined as a mix of traditional Balkan folk music and dance-pop. Balkan pop-folk music is a part of the ethnic pop-folk style which is spread at the junction area of Asia and Europe, which also includes genres like Arabesque from Turkey, Mizrahi music from Israel and Rabiz from Armenia. Balkan pop-folk genres include: