Editing Turbo-folk (section)

{{Short description|Music genre from Serbia}}

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| name              = Turbo-folk
| stylistic_origins = {{hlist|[[Serbian folk music]]|[[techno]]}}
| cultural_origins  = 1990s, [[FR Yugoslavia]]
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'''Turbo-folk''' is a subgenre of contemporary [[South Slavs|South Slavic]] pop music that initially developed in [[Serbia]] during the 1990s as a fusion of [[techno]] and [[folk music|folk]]. The term was an invention of the [[Montenegro|Montenegrin]] singer [[Rambo Amadeus]], who jokingly described the aggressive, satirical style of music as "turbo folk".<ref>[https://eurovision.tv/participant/rambo-amadeus Rambo Amadeus], ''eurovision.tv'', [[2012 Eurovision Song Contest]] participant profile</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Ogledalo tamne budućnosti |last=Stakić |first=Vladimir |date=1988-11-11 |url=https://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:pp%7Cissue:UB_00064_19881111%7Carticle:article866%7Cpage:9%7C |work=Борба |pages=9 |issue=316 |quote=Uostalom, već samo njegovo umetničko ime to govori, kao i njegov termin za muzički pravac kojim se bavi — „turbo folk“. |trans-quote=Besides, this is already shown by his artistic alias, as well as by his name for the musical style that he works in – "turbo folk".}}</ref> While primarily associated with Serbia, this style is also popular in other former Yugoslav republics.