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Cumbia Villera
Cumbia villera ( or ) (roughly translated as " slum cumbia", "ghetto cumbia", or " shantytown cumbia") is a subgenre of cumbia music originating in Argentina in the late 1990s and popularized all over Latin America and Latin communities abroad. Lyrically, cumbia villera uses the vocabulary of the marginal and lower classes, like the Argentine ''lunfardo'' and ''lenguaje tumbero'' ("gangster language" or "thug language"), and deals with themes such as the everyday life in the '' villas miseria'' (slums), poverty and misery, the use of hard drugs, promiscuity and/or prostitution, nights out at ''boliches'' (discos and clubs) that play cumbia and other tropical music genres (such as the emblematic ''Tropitango'' venue in Pacheco), the football culture of the barra bravas, delinquency and clashes with the police and other forms of authority, antipathy towards politicians, and authenticity in being true ''villeros'' (inhabitants of the ''villas''). Musically, cumbia villera bases it ...
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Argentine Cumbia
Argentine cumbia is an umbrella term that comprises several distinct trends within the same tradition: the dance and music style known as cumbia in Argentina. Originally from Colombia, cumbia has been well-known and appreciated in Argentina for a long time, but it gained nationwide scope and attention when it became popular among the lower-class people in main urban centers, the large cities of the Río de la Plata basin, in the 1990s. Among the most important cumbia bands and singers that popularized the genre are Ráfaga, La Nueva Luna, Amar Azul, Gilda, and other traditional cumbia bands like Los Palmeras, Cali and Los Leales. Chocolate had similar success across the water in Uruguay. Most bands are composed of synthesizer keyboards as main instruments, electronic sounds and percussion, and a musical score very charged with vocal harmonies, bells, and trumpets (usually electronically synthesized). History In the 1990s, cumbia first found a place among the working classes, ...
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Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, the country's largest city. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi), and has a population of 52 million. Colombia's cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a Spanish colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by enslaved Africans, as well as with those of the various Amerindian civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is th ...
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Bajo Palabra
The Bajo, Bajonese, Bajonesian, or Wajo, Wajonese ( bug, ᨈᨚ ᨓᨍᨚ, To Wajo; pey, Badjo; nl, Badjo, ) are the Native Indonesians, indigenous Indonesian ethnic group native to the Bajo Island of Lesser Sunda Islands (''Nusa Tenggara'') in Indonesia. These ethnic group can be found all across the Flores Sea to the northeastern Bali Sea, and some have established permanent settlements in the southern of Sulawesi where they are locally known as the Wajo Bugis due to their close historical relation with the Bugis ethnic group. Ethnonym The ethnonym of Bajo people is an endonym which referring to their native origin in the Bajo Island of Lesser Sunda Islands (''Nusa Tenggara''). The term later adopted in the southern Sulawesi language of Bugis language, Bugis as ᨅᨍᨚ, which literally means "[the] wood", referring to the material for making boats that are often used by the Bajo ethnic group to travel the sea across the Flores Sea region. In English language, English, thes ...
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Cumbia Rapera
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans during colonial times, and Europeans. Examples include: * Cumbia (Colombia), Colombian cumbia, is a musical rhythm and traditional folk dance from Colombia. It has elements of three different cultures, American Indigenous, African, and Spanish, being the result of the long and intense meeting of these cultures during the Conquest and the Colony. * Cumbia (Panama), Panamanian cumbia, Panamanian folk dance and musical genre, developed by enslaved people of African descent during colonial times and later syncretized with American Indigenous and European cultural elements. Regional adaptations of Colombian cumbia Argentina * Argentine cumbia * Cumbia villera, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia born in the slums * Fantasma (band), Fantasma, a 2001 group formed by Martín Roisi and Pablo Antico * Cumbia ...
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Viejas Locas
Viejas may refer to: * Viejas Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians, a federally recognized Native American tribe ** Viejas Casino, Alpine, California, United States, a hotel-casino owned by the tribe * Viejas Mountain, California * Viejas Valley, California * Viejas Arena, a sports and music venue on the San Diego State University campus See also * Vieja, a genus of fish * La Vieja River, Colombia * Mission Vieja The Mission Vieja or Misión Vieja or the Old Mission was the first Spanish mission in the San Gabriel Valley. Mission Vieja was built in 1771 by what would become the fathers of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. The Mission Vieja site was d ...
, the first Spanish mission in the San Gabriel Valley, California {{disambig, geo ...
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Rolinga
The ''Rolingas'' (also known as "''stones''") are an Argentina, Argentine Subculture, urban tribe comprising fans of The Rolling Stones and Argentine bands influenced by the aforementioned band. The musical genre associated with such bands is known as "rock rolinga" and also known as "Rock Chabón" (which is roughly translatable as "Dude Rock"). Origins Ratones Paranoicos, with a style similar to that of The Rolling Stones, was the band that started the "rock rolinga" genre and "rolinga" urban tribe during the 1980s. The Rolling Stones had not influenced many Argentine rock bands before that point, and during the period there was a boom of pop music and glam rock. Their style soon became a success. The "rolinga" urban tribe flourished between the mid-1990s after The Rolling Stones first played in Argentina in 1995, during the Voodoo Lounge Tour. The 1990s also saw an increased number of "rolinga" bands, such as Los Piojos, Viejas Locas, La 25, Los Gardelitos, Jóvenes Pordioseros, ...
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2 Minutos
2 Minutos or Dos Minutos are a punk rock band from Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have released ten albums since first receiving a contract by Phonogram in 1994. The band have toured mostly around Latin America. Biography Singer Walter Velásquez first met bass player Aidnajan and guitarist Pedrozo at a Casanovas concert in 1987. The group they formed largely played the local circuit in the early 1990s. In 1992, the band participated in a collective album produced by an independent label called ''Mentes Abiertas'', with the songs ''"Ya No Sos Igual"'' and ''"Arrebato"''. It caught the attention of the local Polygram A&R men who would sign the band soon after. 1994 would be the studio album debut for 2 Minutos. ''Valentín Alsina'' was named in honor of their hometown, and it turned into a bigger hit than even the band or the label had expected on the back of the hit single "Ya no sos Igual" ("You're not the same anymore"), about a corner store clerk whom they fo ...
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Pablo Lescano
Pablo Lescano (Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 8, 1977) is an Argentine singer, composer, keyboardist, and leader of ''Cumbia villera'' group Damas Gratis from 2000. He is considered by many as the founder of the Cumbia villera sub-genre. Biography Born in 1977 in ''Villa La Esperanza'' in San Isidro, a poor suburb of Buenos Aires, Pablo Lescano made his first musical experience at the age of 13 years on a stolen -angeblich- Keyboard. As a youth he was active in several local cumbia bands until his 1997 (19) the commercial breakthrough in the band ''Amar Azul'' succeeded both as a keyboardist, on the other hand as a composer of many titles of the band. With the gained royalties to the sellers of Amar Azul; Pablo Lescano set about building his own studio. In 1999 he concretized its plans to create a form of cumbia, which should be the voice of slum dwellers Argentina. He built around the singer Daniel Lescano, the band Flor de Piedra on which new paths went in text and sound: ...
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Electronic Music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer. Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar."The stuff of electronic music is electrically produced or modified sounds. ... two basic definitions will help put some of the historical discussion in its place: purely electronic music versus electroacoustic music" ()Electroacoustic music may also use electronic effect units to ...
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