books.google.com - Since the early twentieth century, 'balkanization' has signified the often militant fracturing of territories, states, or groups along ethnic, religious, and linguistic divides. Yet the remarkable similarities found among contemporary Balkan popular music reveal the region as the site of a thriving creative...http://books.google.com/books/about/Balkan_Popular_Culture_and_the_Ottoman_E.html?id=E6FYiC_XjgoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBalkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene