Pharaohs and pyramids: ancient Egypt’s surprise grip on Balkan turbo-folk and chalga In the pulsating world of Balkan turbo-folk and chalga – genres often dismissed as lowbrow ...

My paper on #Egyptomania in Balkan turbo folk, chalga and rap just came out last week and it’s already attracting media attention 🤓

@issegyptomania.bsky.social

#ancientegypt #turbofolk #chalga #hiphop #rap

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‘I am ahead of my time, like Ancient Egypt’: Egyptomania in Balkan Turbo-folk, Chalga and Rap. Journal of the International Society for the Study of Egyptomania This paper is the first attempt to analyse Egyptomania and ancient Egyptian motifs in musical genres such as turbo-folk, chalga and rap in the Balkans from the 1990s to nowadays. Within the genres of ...

My paper on #Egyptomania in Balkan #turbofolk, #chalga, pop and rap is now published! 📖
The paper was presented at ISSE conference last year in August while I was staying in Cairo on my way to Port Said to work on the Suez Canal heritage project.

www.academia.edu/128734394/_I...

It's been 10 years since the release of the first ever Balkan Turbofolk song in Mandarin Chinese:
Vodiću te u Kinu (I'll Take You to China)
by Dragan Kebić Keba, along with members of Belgrade's prominent Chinese community

#balkans #turbofolk #mandarinchinese #serbia #china