NPR: The right way to 'Slavic spin'

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5429574/the-right-way-to-slavic-spin Here are some examples from TikTok videos:

https://www.tiktok.com/@arius.s/video/7499600640516066578

https://www.tiktok.com/@zpitaghkrakus/video/7509523740204551446

https://www.tiktok.com/@mearinas/video/7507332050219715848

NPR/WBUR World Music Story

Around timestamp 3:45 they talk about Eastern European and Roma music

NPR: Science Magazine's 2024 Dance Your PhD: Kangaroo Time

"Science magazine's annual contest "Dance Your PhD" invites grad students to present their research through dance. This year's winner, Weliton Menário Costa, showcased his work on kangaroo behavior." 

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1236075487/a-dance-contest-let-this-grad-student-share-his-research-and-celebrates-his-iden

NPR: Syrian Cassette Archive Online

 https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126589744/the-syrian-cassette-archive-preserving-a-disappearing-history

 

 

NPR: Return to Tango After Lockdown

 

NPR: Altin Gun's New Album 'Yol' Reimagines Old Turkish Folk Songs

 https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977928961/altin-guns-new-album-yol-reimagines-old-turkish-folk-songs

 

NPR: 2021 Dance Your PhD Contest Winners

Not exactly folk dance, but still...

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975338555/watch-the-winners-of-the-dance-your-ph-d-contest-make-cloud-formation-catchy

 

 

 

More from other categories in this link:  https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/watch-winners-year-s-dance-your-phd-contest

NPR: Kitka

NPR: Bulgarian Choir

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/07/bulgarian-female-choir-boocheemish

NPR: The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite

NPR: Health benefits of synchronized dancing

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/03/476559518/the-health-benefits-of-dancing-go-beyond-exercise-and-stress-reducer

"New social science research shows that dancing in synchrony with others increases people's threshold for dealing with pain."

NPR: Dance & Parkinsons

Closing quote in the story: "...there are no mistakes in dance — just solos."

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/23/463222589/dance-returns-the-joy-of-movement-to-people-with-parkinsons

NPR: Balkan Music, Eva Salina sings Saban Bajramovic

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/10/462437025/eva-salinas-love-for-balkan-music-is-lifelong-and-accidental
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2016/01/20160110_wesun_eva_salinas_love_for_balkan_music_is_lifelong_and_accidental.mp3?dl=1

NPR: Yiddish music, the Brothers Nazaroff

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462434745/60-years-later-a-wild-baffling-recording-finds-a-modern-spark
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2016/01/20160109_wesat_60_years_later_a_wild_baffling_recording_finds_a_modern_spark.mp3?dl=1 

NPR: Dirty Dancing in the Early 1900s

http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/06/11/413522281/dirty-dancing-in-the-early-1900s

"To watch them being performed today, the Bunny Hug, the Turkey Trot, the Grizzly Bear and other so-called "animal dances" of the early 1900s seem tame..."

NPR: Chinese regulation of "square" dancing

Heard this story on NPR this evening:
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/27/395817212/in-regulating-outdoor-dancing-china-tells-seniors-how-to-bust-a-move


Here's another related link
: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/24/395105501/china-is-going-to-regulate-outdoor-square-dancing

NPR story about Chicago Summerdance

Heard this story on "All Things Considered" this evening:

NPR: Henry Ford's 150th with folk dancing

According to this story from NPR's Weekend Edition this morning, Henry Ford was a great fan of folk dancing.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=206310512
The comment thread says that the caller heard in the story is Glen Morningstar Jr, leading the Ruffwater Stringband. Fiddler is Brad Battey Jr., playing the Rochester Schottische.

NPR: Markovic Orkestar - Golden Horns

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/03/156201129/serbias-markovic-orkestar-breaks-boundaries-with-brass

NPR: Ethnic 78RPM record mix

There's a story up on NPR, along with an audio player that has a lot of ethnic music, much of it Greek/Turkish/Balkan, from old 78rpm records:

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/23/145361675/78-78s-in-search-of-lost-time

http://www.npr.org/series/129702737/the-mix