{
  "name": "Balkan Music",
  "description": "Meta-genre covering all forms developed in the Balkan Peninsula.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/balkan-music/",
  "parent": "European Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 6,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Balkan Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/balkan-folk-music/",
      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Balkan Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Balkan Pop-Folk",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/balkan-pop-folk/",
      "description": "Balkan popular music which blends Pop, Folk, and ethnic music.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Balkan Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Entechna",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/entechna/",
      "description": "First appeared in Greece in the late 1950s, featuring orchestrated arrangements with influence from Greek Folk Music and the popular Laika style.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Balkan Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Laika",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/laika/",
      "description": "Greek popular music played with local instruments like the bouzouki, Greek baglama, and the jouras.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Balkan Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Romanţe",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/romante/",
      "description": "Expressive and poetic Romanian style, generally sung similar to a Chanson and composed for piano and guitar orchestral arrangements.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Balkan Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Yu-Mex",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/yu-mex/",
      "description": "Style of popular music from former Yugoslavia that incorporates elements of Mexican Music.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Balkan Music"
    }
  ]
}