Bosnian root music came from the Drina and Spreča valleys. It is usually performed by singers with one or two violinists and a šargija player. These bands first appeared around World War I and became popular in the 1960s. This is the third oldest music following after the sevdalinka and ilahija. Now it is the most popular form of rural music in Bosnia only.

Rural folk traditions in Bosnia include the shouted, polyphonic

Polyphony

In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ....

 ganga

Ganga (music)

Ganga is a type of singing from rural Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is characterized by a lone singer singing one line of lyrics and then others joining in for what can be best described as a wail. It is a very passionate form of singing, which is one of the reasons it has been limited in...

 and ravne pjesme (flat song) styles, as well as instruments like a droneless bagpipe, wooden flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

 and sargija

Šargija

The šargija is a plucked, fretted long necked chordophone used in the folk music of various Balkan countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania and Serbia....

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This music is original only to Bosnia.

Songs

The songs are about all kinds of things from being a "lola" and "baraba", about love of a woman, having a good life, but also about sad things like mostly the war in Bosnia , especially songs about Srebrenica and also songs about Bosnian war heroes past and present.

Bosnian Root Musica groups and singers

The most popular group in Bosnia right now is "Sateliti

Sateliti

Sateliti is a Bosnian Root music group formed in 1989. Today they are the most popular root music group in Bosnia. The original singer Muto, is still with the group that he formed, he is the main vocalist....

" followed by other like "Refkini Ahbabi" and other groups and the most famous of these singers had to be Halid Music, being the recent of Bosnian Root Music in the production company studio Kemix,with Dzemalom Dzihanovicem. The music has proven to be a way for former enemies to become friends again. Izvor music is popular by Serbs as well as Bosniaks,but by Croats from Usora,Žepče and posavina is most popular grup Begići and Baščovani that still sing in Bosnia,Croatia on zavičajno sijelo and get thausands peoples to listen them and all over world.Original music-Bosanska
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Studio Kemix firm Dzemal Dzihanovic from Zivinice together with its artists this kind of music brought to perfection at the end 20.vijeka.Dat it is an entirely new form of modernity, and so it is most common in the Tuzla Canton and the cradle of this musical city Zivinice were named Bosnian town of original music . Songs are performed preferably in a diphthong, the first and second voice which is a special secret performance of this music and some performers sing in troglasu as they do Kalesijski triple that in 1968 and recorded the first written record of the tone on the album, along with Higurashi no naku .

Croat groups include:

• Braca Jakovljevic
• Ruza i Oracani
• Grabicki becari
• Baščovani
• Braća Domić
• Braća Begić
• Ante Bubalo
• Braća Grgić
• Bosanski Žubori
• Braća Geljić
• Bracini Bećari
• Braća Martinović
• Bistri izvor
• Dobojski Dukati
• Braća Vidovići
• Zvuci rodnog kraja
• Zvuci posavine
• Katni slavuji
• Braca Marusic
• Braca Jelic
• Posavski odjeci
• Plahanski odjeci
• Braca Tunjić
• Jozo Jelac
• Serac i Jerkan
• Seoski Vragolani
• Izvornjacka Dusa
• Dar Zavicaja
• Biseri Posavine
• Mladi Veseljaci
• Grubisa i Mato
• Braca Milinkovic
• Barusa i Mrkulja
• Dva Jarana
• Usorski izvori
• Šimo i Ivica
• Dobrovodski Biseri
• Izvorni Dar
• Posavski Zvuci
• Braća Čabraja
• Braća Grubišić
• Tajne Staze
• Perica Stjepanović

Other Bosniak groups are:

• Behka i Ljuca
• Rukija i jarani
• Braca Hodzic i Halco
• Salcine meraklije
• Semir i Sanel
• Djerze
• Bosanske sevdalije
• Sijelo Halida Musica
• Necko i Hari
• Braca Bojic i Hanifa
• Braca Bojic
• Kalesijska trojka
• Braca Tuholjakovic
• Djurdjevicki izvori
• Dobascani
• Biseri izvora
• Sateliti
• Sijelo Halida Musica
• Refkini ahbabi
• Banovicko sijelo
• Izvor rasadina
• Sehovic i Bedici
• Bajrini izvori
• Djedinska trojka
• Zavidovicki talasi
• Kamenicki zvuci
• Banovicko sijelo
• Sprecanski talasi
• Braća Babajić
• Narcis
• Zvornicko Sijelo
• Veseli Sastavci
• Raspjevane Meraklije
• Kalesijski Zvuci
• Kalesijski Slavuji
• Zvuci Podrinja
• Zehrini Jarani
• Halil i Senada
• Mirsada i Jarani
• Halid Musić
• Sibirski Izvori
• Vogoscanski izvori
• Olovski izvori

Some Serb groups are:

• Braca Radulovic
• Mara I Lole
• Barabe
• Naše Vrijeme
• Legende
• Ozrenske Bekrije
• Veseli Kumovi
• Zvuci Rodnog Kraja
• Božur