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Middle Eastern and North African music traditions

This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments, and other related topics. The term folk music cannot be easily defined in a precise manner. It is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work. Similarly, the term traditions in this context does not connote any strictly-defined criteria. Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists, and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct traditions based along racial, geographic, linguistic, religious, tribal, or ethnic lines, and all such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what constitutes a "folk music tradition". This list uses the same general categories used by mainstream, primarily English-language, scholarly sources, as determined by relevant statements of fact and the internal structure of works.

These traditions may coincide entirely, partially or not at all with geographic, political, linguistic, or cultural boundaries. Very few, if any, music scholars would claim that there are any folk music traditions that can be considered specific to a distinct group of people and with characteristics undiluted by contact with the music of other peoples; thus, the folk music traditions described herein overlap in varying degrees with each other.

Algerian musician Abderrahmane Abdelli performing in Belgium

Algerian musician Abderrahmane Abdelli performing in Belgium

Israeli folk dancing

Israeli folk dancing

K.P.H. Notoprojo, famous rebab player

K.P.H. Notoprojo, famous rebab player

Arabic music instrument Mizmar

Arabic music instrument Mizmar

A Moroccan instrument sintir or gimbri

A Moroccan instrument sintir or gimbri

Iranian instrument dohol

Iranian instrument dohol

Ames, David W. (1971). . Glossary of Hausa music and its social contexts. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. pp. 3–60. ISBN 978-0-8101-0361-0.

"Instruments and their parts"

(1998). Traditional African & Oriental Music. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-023107-2.

Karolyi, Otto

; West, Margaret (1935). The Dance: Its Place in Art and Life. Tudor Publishing.

Kinney, Troy

Manuel, Peter (1988). . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505342-7.

Popular Musics of the Non-Western World

Philip V. Bohlman; Bruno Nettl; Charles Capwell; Thomas Turino; Isabel K. F. Wong (1997). (Second ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-230632-8.

Excursions in World Music

Fujie, Linda; James T. Koetting; ; David B. Reck; John M. Schechter; Mark Slobin; R. Anderson Sutton (1992). Jeff Todd Titan (ed.). Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (Second ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-872602-2.

David P. McAllester

Şentürk, Onur (June 2020). [Traditional Playing of the Black Sea Fiddle in Greece]. Erdem (in Turkish) (78): 189–212. doi:10.32704/erdem.749159. ISSN 1010-867X.

"Karadeniz Kemençesinin Yunanistan'daki İcra Geleneği"

Tsekouras, Ioannis (2016). Nostalgia, Emotionality, and Ethno-Regionalism in Pontic Parakathi Singing (PhD). .

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

World Music Central Archived February 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

"International Dance Glossary"