{
  "name": "Balkan Pop-Folk",
  "description": "Balkan popular music which blends Pop, Folk, and ethnic music.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/balkan-pop-folk/",
  "parent": "Pop",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 16,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Chalga",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/chalga/",
      "description": "Bulgarian blend of Contemporary Folk (Turkish, Bulgarian, Arabic & Romani) with Dance-Pop.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chalga",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/chalga/",
      "description": "Bulgarian blend of Contemporary Folk (Turkish, Bulgarian, Arabic & Romani) with Dance-Pop.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Manele",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/manele/",
      "description": "Mixture of Romanian Music with Turkish, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and Romani influences, usually electronic in production.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Manele",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/manele/",
      "description": "Mixture of Romanian Music with Turkish, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and Romani influences, usually electronic in production.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Modern Laika",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/modern-laika/",
      "description": "Laiki music mixed with popular Western music, most notably pop and dance.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Modern Laika",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/modern-laika/",
      "description": "Laiki music mixed with popular Western music, most notably pop and dance.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Musika popullore",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/musika-popullore/",
      "description": "Tradition in Albania consisting of light, commercial, amplified Albanian Folk Music usually professionally arranged and manufactured in recording studios alongside video clips.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Musika popullore",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/musika-popullore/",
      "description": "Tradition in Albania consisting of light, commercial, amplified Albanian Folk Music usually professionally arranged and manufactured in recording studios alongside video clips.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Muzică de mahala",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/muzica-de-mahala/",
      "description": "Appeared in the 1980s, incorporating modern instruments and based on the model of Balkan Pop-Folk in neighboring countries.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Muzică de mahala",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/muzica-de-mahala/",
      "description": "Appeared in the 1980s, incorporating modern instruments and based on the model of Balkan Pop-Folk in neighboring countries.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Skiladika",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/skiladika/",
      "description": "Greek popular artists who used more Arabian elements; originally a derogatory term used to refer to a more decadent side of Laika.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Skiladika",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/skiladika/",
      "description": "Greek popular artists who used more Arabian elements; originally a derogatory term used to refer to a more decadent side of Laika.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tallava",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tallava/",
      "description": "Mixture of Romani, Greek, Turkish, Albanian, and Slavic music, which incorporates Dance-Pop elements, and is very popular in Albania and Kosovo.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tallava",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tallava/",
      "description": "Mixture of Romani, Greek, Turkish, Albanian, and Slavic music, which incorporates Dance-Pop elements, and is very popular in Albania and Kosovo.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Turbo-Folk",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/turbo-folk/",
      "description": "Originated in Serbia during the 1980s, fusing traditional Western Balkan Folk Music with elements of contemporary popular music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    },
    {
      "name": "Turbo-Folk",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/turbo-folk/",
      "description": "Originated in Serbia during the 1980s, fusing traditional Western Balkan Folk Music with elements of contemporary popular music.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Balkan Pop-Folk"
    }
  ]
}