Talk:Gypsy punk

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Which is funny, since Gogol Bordello isn't punk. -Drevius

Gogol Bordello is a mix of punk rock with traditional Gypsy music. The punk influence is fairly obvious, especially on their latest album. --Every Dog's Day 20:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On that vague word "Gypsy"

Something more definite than "gypsy music" should really be said here. Roma music varies nearly as widely geographically as the folk music of the more "settled" residents of those areas. I get the impression Gogol Bordello is focused on a Romanian sound, but I'm no expert on the band. Good questions to ask would be relating gypsy punk to any other genres connected with Roma musicians, like manele.

Also, the other bands identified: do they also describe themselves as gypsy punk or do they use other terms? If GB are the only ones, this article may as well redirect. Bjart 08:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neologism

This doesn't seem like a valid genre term at all. There seems to be a line of thought going around on Wikipedia that if a word appears before the word "punk" then it denotes a genre. Not only is that not true, but this article is based upon a misreading of the source. He doesn't call his music "gypsy punk", but "gypsy punk cabaret". And artists themselves are not considered reliable sources for their genre classification because of such terminology like this. I'd strongly suggest this page be nominated for deletion. WesleyDodds 22:13, 6 December 2006 (UTC)