Current Status
While at the beginning of the 20th century, the doina was the most common type of peasant song (in some areas the only type), today it has almost completely disappeared from peasant life, as most peasant music has. This process has been accentuated during the communist era, with the rise of the new "popular music", bringing a new style of performance that diluted the peasant styles.
The doina is still, however, common in the repertoire of the lăutari from Ardeal and Banat regions.
In 1976 Gheorge Zamfir found popular success in the English-speaking world when the BBC religious television programme The Light of Experience adopted his recording of "Doina De Jale" as its theme. Popular demand forced Epic Records to release the tune as a single and it climbed to number four on the UK charts.
In 2009 the doina has been included in the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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