Cumbia

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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.^[1] 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.

Regional adaptations of Colombian cumbia[]

Argentina[]

• Argentine cumbia
• cumbia villera, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia born in the slums
• Fantasma, a 2001 group formed by Martín Roisi and Pablo Antico
• cumbia santafesina, a musical genre emerged in Santa Fe, Argentina

Bolivia[]

Chile[]

• New Chilean cumbia, a subgenre derived from Colombian cumbia

Costa Rica[]

Mexico[]

• Mexican cumbia
• or chunchaca, a variant of Mexican cumbia
• , a variant of Mexican cumbia, developed in northeastern Mexico and part of Texas (former Mexican territory)
• , a variant of Mexican cumbia

Paraguay[]

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

Peru[]

• Peruvian cumbia;
• or Andean tropical music
• or jungle cumbia, a popular subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, created in the Peruvian Amazon
• , 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
• , a subgenre of cumbia piurana
• , a subgenre of Peruvian cumbia, a fusion of Andean cumbia and techno

El Salvador[]

Venezuela[]

References[]

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