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The launch of a new turbo-folk radio station in Zagreb has caused near-panic in the Croatian capital – where threats to its ‘Central European’ identity are taken seriously. Croatia’s pop Queen ...

The musical genre that defined the 1990s still has a strong following in Serbia. Turbo-folk singers will take on the combined box-office might of Moby and Amy Winehouse this month, parading the ...

Sitting down to write about Bulgarian turbo-folk music is inducing a weird flashback. It's 1989 and I'm a guinea pig sat at a desk 1.5 metres away from the next candidate attempting the first ever ...

The Serbian phenomenon of "turbo-folk" - a controversial form of music identified with the Milosevic era - still manages to enchant and disgust people in equal measure in Belgrade. Ceca's marriage to ...

The wave of arrests following the assassination of the prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, and the police drive against organised crime has rocked the world of Serbian show business. In particular, the ...