polka

Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in 24 originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.
First attestedunknownfrom the timeline
PractitionersUnknownno census we can cite
Claims on record00 sourced evidence rows
Sources cited1deduplicated by publisher

The tradition

Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in 24 originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though generally associated with Czech and Central European culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Polka”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

polka is Central European dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1

The source record links this tradition to 35 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1

What it mixes with

0 linked entries

Artists and institutions

claim-and-verify, same door for everyone
No practitioner pages linked yet.

Sources

0 claims and 0 timeline entries on this page draw on 1 sources, deduplicated by publisher.

SourceTypePublisher
Wikidata: polka (Q153071)databaseWikidata

Do you practise or teach polka?

Correct what is wrong, add what is missing, and cite your source — every edit is a claim, and every claim needs one. The full history of this page is public and append-only.

Cite: “polka.” folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/polka — text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Sign in to report