Cumbia
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Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythm 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.[1] It has contents of three cultural aspects, indigenous, blacks and to a lesser extent, Spanish, being the result of the long and intense miscegenation between these cultures during the Conquest and the Colony.
- Panamanian cumbia, a Panamanian folk dance and musical genre, developed by blacks enslaved during colonial times and later syncretized with Amerindian and European cultural elements.
Regional adaptations of Colombian cumbia[edit]
Argentina[edit]
- Argentine cumbia
- Cachengue, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia heavily influenced by Reggaeton
- cumbia villera, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia born in the slums
- Fantasma, a 2001 group formed by Martín Roisi and Pablo Antico
- pop cumbia, a subgenre of Argentine and Uruguayan cumbia
- cumbia santafesina, a musical genre emerged in Santa Fe, Argentina
Bolivia[edit]
Chile[edit]
- Chilean cumbia
- New Chilean cumbia, a subgenre derived from Colombian cumbia
Costa Rica[edit]
Mexico[edit]
- Mexican cumbia
- Southeast cumbia or chunchaca, a variant of Mexican cumbia
- Northern Mexican cumbia, a variant of Mexican cumbia, developed in northeastern Mexico and part of Texas (former Mexican territory)
- Cumbia sonidera, a variant of Mexican cumbia
Paraguay[edit]
- Cachaca, a fusion of cumbia sonidera, norteña, vallenato and cumbia villera
Peru[edit]
- 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