WorldMusic

Eastern Europe

32 genres

Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and the western Balkans. The region is the source of much Roma music heard across Europe, the Balkan Brass tradition popularised abroad by the films of Emir Kusturica, and the Russian Romantic and Soviet symphonic schools.

Most popular

  • Electronic & DanceDrift Phonkメンフィス系ヒップホップから派生した「フォンク(Phonk)」を、さらに速く、激しくしたサブジャンル。ロシア・東欧を中心に再構築され、車のドリフト動画と結びついてTikTokで爆発的に広まった。本場アメリカではなく、ロシアと東欧、そして車の映像から世界へ広がった異色のジャンルだ。
  • Folk & WorldKlezmerEastern European Jewish dance and lament music — clarinet, fiddle and accordion playing weddings, funerals and the gap between.
  • Rock & MetalRussian DoomerCold post-Soviet post-punk revival made global by TikTok — Molchat Doma's Minsk gloom as worldwide mood music.
  • PopManeleRomanian Roma-derived dance pop, controversial at home but massive on the street, built on Balkan ornament and synth orchestras.
  • PopDisco PoloCheap, cheerful Polish dance-pop that exploded right after communism's fall in 1989; long dismissed by elites, later embraced both ironically and sincerely.
  • Folk & WorldRussian Bard SongSoviet 'author's song', sung with one voice and one acoustic guitar.
  • PopSoviet Mass SongThe bright, marching patriotic song the Soviet state deliberately cultivated.
  • Rock & MetalDoomer WavePost-Soviet cold post-punk repackaged as global TikTok mood music for the perpetually online.
  • Electronic & DanceRomanian MinimalBucharest-based deep minimal house — long, low, slow-moving sets engineered for after-hours floors.
  • SacredHoly MinimalismA loose grouping of late-20th-century European composers — Pärt, Górecki, Tavener — whose minimal means point toward sacred quiet.

By country

Poland

Russia

ルーマニア

ハンガリー

ブルガリア

チェコ

ロシア/ベラルーシ

ベラルーシ

Other

セルビア

ウクライナ・ポーランド

ロシア・ウクライナ

ウクライナ

ヨーロッパ全域

ポーランド・ウクライナ・ドイツ

By decade

Before 1900

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