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BarkellWH -> RE: How can anyone not like rumba? (May 19 2016 16:06:23)
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I actually believe that the melody is north (east) african... Bulgarian music is often in more complex rythms.
That may be, Anders. I'm no ethno-musicologist, but as I mentioned, I remember the "Gypsy" restaurant my wife and I used to go to in Sofia as having a "Gypsy" violinist who played music very similar to what you were playing. At the time, in the mid-1970s, the population of Bulgaria included about ten percent ethnic Turks and about four percent ethnic Gypsies or Roma. The music being played quite possibly could have been from either ethnic group.
And the other thing I remember well was the lack of variety in restaurants under the old communist regime. The menu would have perhaps 20 entree's listed. As you went down each one, the waiter would reply "ne," "ne," until you got to Chicken Kiev, at which point he said "da." It was the one thing, and often the only thing, you could always count on in Bulgarian restaurants.
Bill
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