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The music of Croatia, like the country itself, has three major influences:
the influence of the Mediterranean especially present in the coastal areas,
of the Balkans especially in the mountainous continental parts,,
and of central Europe in the central and northern parts of the country.
While both pop/rock and folk are rather popular in Croatia, the folk/pop combinations fare the best.
1 Folk music
1.1 Klapa
1.2 Tamburitza
1.3 Gusle
1.4 Other folk traditions

2 Popular music
2.1 Pop
2.2 Rock
2.3 Dance
2.4 Rap
2.5 Other
3 Jazz

Rock
There are several rather popular and long-lasting mainstream rock acts like Parni Valjak, Prljavo Kazalište, Crvena Jabuka, Atomsko Sklonište etc. They originated in the 1970s and 1980s, and for the better part of their career resorted to a more mellow, mainstream pop-rock sound. Of some note is also the Sarajevo school of pop rock which influenced many of these bands, and which also included singers like Željko Bebek who later worked in Croatia.However, Croatian New Wave (Novi Val) movement, which exploded in 1979/80 and lasted throughout the eighties, is considered by many to be the high watermark of Croatian rock music, both in terms of quality and commercial success. It was the time when Croatian rock scene, along with its Serbian (and to some extent, Slovenian) counterparts, was one of the most creative in the whole of Europe. The most influential and popular bands of Novi val were Azra, Haustor, Film, even early Prljavo Kazalište. Other notable acts were Animatori, Buldožer, Paraf, Patrola etc.In the late 1980s, the region of Istria became home to a kind of called Ča-va, which often used the Čakavian dialect and elements of traditional Istra-Kvarner music.The New Wave scene has collapsed by the end of the eighties, to be replaced by the newcomers like Daleka Obala, Majke and Laufer. While Daleka Obala sported a pop-rock sound influenced by Novi val, Croatian pop and even Dalmatian folk, Majke were a back-to-basics, garage-rock act stylistically influenced by the Serbian rock group Partibrejkers. Laufer, led by Damir Urban (who later went on to form Urban & 4), were an early nineties alternative rock band taking their cue from the grunge movement. Let 3 and KUD Idijoti are also prominent rock acts, popular both for their music and their interesting, often controversial, performances and stunts. Beginning in the late 1980s, folk-rock groups also sprouted across Croatia. The first is said to be Vještice, who combined Međimurje folk music with rock and set the stage for artists like Legen, Lidija Bajuk and Dunja Knebl. At the same time on the other side of Croatia, in Istria, a band called Gustafi started playing their own strange amalgamate of rock and Istrian folk, but it took them more than a decade to reach the nationwide audience.

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A ovaj pobjegne nazad ne vjerujuci kako je bio prepoznat. Sljedeci dan se nas Niko prerusi u pankera, pofarba kosu, stavi brdo nausnica i izade van. Kad opet ona ista starica opet na njega:
- Gdje si, Kranjcaru?
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- Gdje si, Kranjcaru?
Ovome vise dozlogrdilo, te pride bakici i upita je:
- Slusaj ti bako odakle ti mene znas?
A Bakica mu odgovori:
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