North American " Slovenian-style polka " is fast and features piano accordion, chromatic accordion, and / or diatonic button box accordion ; it is associated with Cleveland.

* Slovenian-style polka

The program featured various popular bands that played Slovenian-style polka, Polish, Italian and Bohemian-style music.

In 1957 Ostanek formed his own band playing Slovenian-style polka music.

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

In traditional jazz, swing, polka, rockabilly, and psychobilly music, it is sometimes played in the slap style.

Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".

Chamame, a kind of polka is played during the Carnivals.

The polka is a Central European dance and also a genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas.

Although the dance didn't originate in Poland, the Oxford Etymological Dictionary claims its name is derived from the Czech polka meaning " Polish woman " ( feminine form corresponding to polák, a Pole ).

The beginning of the propagation of dance and accompanying music called polka is generally attributed to a young woman, Anna Slezakova ( born Anna Chadimova ) of Labska Tynice, Bohemia, who danced to accompany a local folk song called " Strycek Nimra koupil simla ", or " Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse ", in 1834.

One of the types found in the United States is the North American " Polish-style polka ," which has roots in Chicago ; two sub-styles are " The Chicago Honky " ( using clarinet and one trumpet ) and " Chicago Push " featuring the accordion, Chemnitzer & Star concertinas, upright bass or bass guitar, drums, and ( almost always ) two trumpets.

The polka ( polca in the Irish language ) is also one of the most popular traditional folk dances in Ireland, particularly in Sliabh Luachra, a district that spans the borders of counties Kerry, Cork and Limerick.

The Irish polka is dance music form in 2 / 4, typically 32 bars in length and subdivided into two parts, each 8 bars in length and played AABB.

The polka also migrated to the Nordic countries where it is known by a variety of names in Denmark ( galopp, hopsa ), Estonia ( polka ), Finland ( pariisipolkka, polkka ), Iceland, Norway ( galopp, hamborgar, hopsa / hopsar, parisarpolka, polka, polkett, skotsk ) and Sweden ( polka ).

The polka is considered a part of the gammeldans tradition of music and dance.

While it is nowhere near as old as the older Nordic dance and music traditions, there are still hundreds of polka tunes in each of the Nordic countries.

While the polka is Bohemian in origin, most dance music composers in Vienna ( the capital of the vast Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was the cultural centre for music from all over the empire ) composed polkas and included the dance in their repertoire at some point of their career.

The feminine and graceful ' French polka ' ( polka française ) is slower in tempo and is more measured in its gaiety.

The polka-mazurka is also another variation of the polka, being in the tempo of a mazurka but danced in a similar manner as the polka.

In the 1980s and 1990s, several American bands began to combine polka with various rock styles ( sometimes referred to as " punk polka "), " alternative polka ", or " San Francisco-style ".

Their music, both originals and covers, incorporates a number of dance styles, mostly polka, but also some Latin American and Caribbean styles like norteño, salsa, rumba, cha-cha-cha, choro, samba, two-step, cumbia, charanga, merengue, ska, etc.

Rock was an urban style, formed in the areas where diverse populations resulted in the mixtures of African American, Latin and European genres ranging from the blues and country to polka and zydeco.

Harold Loeffelmacher ( March 14, 1905 – January 30, 1987 ) was an American musician and bandleader best known for forming the polka band known as the Six Fat Dutchmen.

* Polka Party with Brave Combo: Live and Wild !, an album by the American polka band Brave Combo

Orchestral dance music developed from localised forms such as the jig, polka and waltz, but with the admixture of Latin American, blues and ragtime influences, it diversified into countless sub-genres such as big band, cabaret and Swing.

* Verne Meisner ( 1938 – 2005 ), American polka musician

His influence in this field is important, as he helped developed the genre of American polka and inspired future bandleaders like Edward Krolikowski and Ignacy Podgorski.

* Verne Meisner ( 1938-2005 ), American polka musician

For years, he has played traditional polka music on his accordion, but a series of upheavals in his life inspire an interest in American Zydeco and Cajun music.

Other composers who wrote music in the style of the polka were Jaromír Weinberger, Dmitri Shostakovich and Igor Stravinsky.

The most popular genre is Cleveland-Slovenian style polka ( and waltzes ), also Chicago-Polish style polka and Czech, German style polka ( and waltzes ) and so on.

Many Slovenian polka / oberkrainer style bands in Europe are also in tribute of Avsenik's music, including Slovenia's Hisni ansambel Avsenik and Gasperji / Die Jungen Oberkrainer.

Northeastern Mexico is home to another popular style called norteña, which assimilates Mexican ranchera with Colombian cumbia and is typically played with Bavarian accordions and Bohemian polka influence.

The music of Finntroll features a " real innovation " in the marriage of black metal music with a style of Finnish polka called humppa.

Greenland's Inuit population has their own musical traditions, which have been melded with elements of Nordic music, such as the kalattuut style of Danish polka.

Dominican folk music includes, most influentially, the French Antillean quadrille tradition, the jing ping style of dance music, as well as bélé and heel-and-toe polka.

Originating from the 19th century, jenka is actually the same dance style as the German slow tempo polka called schottische or rheinländer.

" Weird Al " Yankovic's 1984 song " Polkas on 45 " parodies the Stars on 45 format, except that the entire song is done in the style of a polka.

* Norteño ( music ) is a style of Mexican music related to polka and corridos

The band was known mostly for playing the " Oom-pah " style of polka music that originated from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia.

In the 19th century, choro resulted from the style of playing several musical genres ( polka, schottische, waltz, mazurka and habanera ) by carioca musicians, who were already strongly influenced by African rhythms, principally the lundu and the batuque.

The gothabilly wardrobe incorporates some style elements from the retro culture revival, including: stylized flames, 50's tattoo imagery, animal prints, creeper shoes, cherry accessories and ubiquitous polka dot clothes, pencil skirts, fishnet stockings and high heels, all popular in both the rockabilly and psychobilly scenes.

Chicken scratch dance is based on the " walking two step or the walking polka and the emphasis is on a very smooth gliding movement "; dancers may also perform the mazurka or the chote, though no matter the style, it is always performed counterclockwise.

This region has a unique musical style which makes heavy use of the polka and the slide.