Cumbia  

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Muchachos bailen la cumbia
Porque la cumbia emociona
La cumbia cienaguera
Que se baila suavezona

--"La Cumbia Cienaguera"

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Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from Amerindians, Africans enslaved during colonial times, and Europeans.

Examples include:

  • Colombian cumbia, is a musical rhythm and traditional folk dance from Colombia. It has elements of three different cultures, American Indian, African, and to a lesser extent, Spanish, being the result of the long and intense meeting of these cultures during the Conquest and the Colony.
  • Panamanian cumbia, Panamanian folk dance and musical genre, developed by slaves of African descent during colonial times and later syncretized with Amerindian and European cultural elements.

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Regional adaptations of Colombian cumbia

Argentina

Bolivia

Chile

Costa Rica

Mexico

Paraguay

  • Cachaca, a fusion of cumbia sonidera, norteña, vallenato and cumbia villera

Peru

  • Peruvian cumbia;
  • Chicha or Andean tropical music
  • Amazonian cumbia or jungle cumbia, a popular subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, created in the Peruvian Amazon
  • Cumbia piurana, a set of styles and sub-genres linked to cumbia that have been produced in Piura, a region on the north Peruvian coast, since the mid-1960s
  • Cumbia sanjuanera, a subgenre of cumbia piurana
  • Cumbia sureña, a subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, a fusion of Andean cumbia and techno

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