Abstrakt:
This study covers the state of traditional folk music and classical European music as non commercial genres in a field of audio-visual media. Film, television and internet strongly influenced the taste of the consumer using the way of intensive propagation of commercially successful and economically perspective genre of pop music. This tendency however caused rapid decrease of interest for other, less preferred genres like classical European music, jazz, traditional folk music etc. Author as well evaluates percentage quota of recorded music devices with traditional folk music in regard to entire production of selected Slovak production companies after the year 1989.