Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of
Latin America
Latin America or
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* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans during colonial times, and Europeans.
Examples include:
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Colombian cumbia, is a musical rhythm and traditional folk dance from
Colombia
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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
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and the
Colony
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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
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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 ...
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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.
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, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia born in the slums
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Fantasma, a 2001 group formed by Martín Roisi and Pablo Antico
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Cumbia santafesina
Cumbia santafesina is a musical style that arose in Santa Fe, Argentina. It is distinguished by taking the guitar and the accordion as the main instruments. Another distinctive feature of cumbia santafesina compared to other subgenres of the res ...
, a musical genre emerged in Santa Fe, Argentina
Bolivia
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Bolivian cumbia
Bolivian may refer to:
* Something of, or related to Bolivia
** Bolivian people
** Demographics of Bolivia
** Culture of Bolivia
Bolivia is a country in South America, bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the s ...
Chile
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Chilean cumbia
Chilean may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Chile, a country in South America
* Chilean people
* Chilean Spanish
* Chilean culture
* Chilean cuisine
* Chilean Americans
See also
*List of Chileans
This is a list of Chileans who ar ...
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New Chilean cumbia
The New Chilean Cumbia also known as New Chilean Cumbia Rock (Spanish: ''Nueva cumbia chilena'', ''Nueva cumbia rock chilena'') is a subgenre of cumbia music that originated in Chile in the early 2000s and that largely surfaced in mainstream med ...
Costa Rica
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Costa Rican cumbia
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Ecuador
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Ecuadorian cumbia
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El Salvador
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Salvadoran cumbia
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Cumbia marimbera
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:
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, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Guatemala
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Guatemalan cumbia
Guatemalan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Guatemala
* A person from Guatemala, or of Guatemalan descent. For information about the Guatemalan people, see Demographics of Guatemala and Culture of Guatemala. For s ...
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Cumbia marimbera
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:
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, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Honduras
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Honduran cumbia
Honduran may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Honduras
* Hondurans, persons from Honduras or of Honduran descent
* Honduran population, see Ethnicity in Honduras
* Honduran Spanish, the language spoken in Honduras
* Honduran cuisine
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Cumbia marimbera
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:
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, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Mexico
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Mexican cumbia
Mexican cumbia is a type of cumbia, a music which originated in Colombia but was reinvented and adapted in Mexico.
Origins
The cumbia started in Colombia in the 1800s. In the 1940s Colombian singer Luis Carlos Meyer Castandet emigrated to Mexic ...
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Southeast cumbia
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or chunchaca, a variant of Mexican cumbia
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Northern Mexican cumbia
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* Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe
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, a variant of Mexican cumbia, developed in northeastern Mexico and part of Texas (former Mexican territory)
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Cumbia sonidera
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:
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, a variant of Mexican cumbia
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Cumbia marimbera
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:
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, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Nicaragua
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Nicaraguan cumbia
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Cumbia chinandegana
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:
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Cumbia marimbera
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:
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, a subgenre of Cumbia that is widely popular in Southern Mexico and Central America
Panama
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Panamanian cumbia
Paraguay
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Cachaca, a fusion of cumbia sonidera, norteña, vallenato and cumbia villera
Peru
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Peruvian cumbia
Peruvian cumbia is a subgenre of chicha (Andean tropical music) that became popular in the coastal cities of Peru, mainly in Lima in the 1960s through the fusion of local versions of the original Colombian genre, traditional highland huayno, an ...
also known as ''chicha'' or psychedelic cumbia
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Chicha
''Chicha'' is a fermented (alcoholic) or non-fermented beverage of Latin America, emerging from the Andes and Amazonia regions. In both the pre- and post-Spanish conquest periods, corn beer (''chicha de jora'') made from a variety of maize land ...
or Andean tropical music
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Amazonian cumbia
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*Amazon River, in South America
**Amazon basin, that river's drainage basin
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*Relating ...
or jungle cumbia, a popular subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, created in the Peruvian Amazon
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Cumbia piurana
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:
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, 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
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Cumbia sanjuanera
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:
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, a subgenre of cumbia piurana
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Cumbia sureña
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:
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, a subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, a fusion of Andean cumbia and techno
Uruguay
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Uruguayan cumbia
Venezuela
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Venezuelan cumbia
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