Musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America
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, Europeans and African slaves during colonial times.[1] Cumbia is said to have come from funeral traditions in the Afro-Colombian community.
Cumbia traditionally uses three drums (tambora, tambor alegre [es] and llamador), three flutes (gaita hembra and gaito macho, both forms of Colombian flute [es], and flauta de millo) and has a 2 2 or 2 4 meter.[2] The sound of cumbia can be characterized as having a simple "chu-chucu-chu" rhythm created by the guacharaca.[3] The genre frequently incorporates brass instruments and piano.
In order to properly understand the interlocking relationship between cumbia's roots, its Pan-American (and then global) routes, and its subgenres, Colombia's geocultural complexities must be taken into account.
Most Hispanic American countries have made their own regional version of Cumbia, some of them with their own particularity.
Examples of cumbia include:
Colombian cumbia, is a musical rhythm and traditional folk dance from Colombia.[4] 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.[5] The Colombian cumbia is the origin of all the other variations,[6] including the tradition of dancing it with candles in the dancers' hands.
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.
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^Yurco, Cherie (2014-02-25). "Cumbia: The Sound of Colombia". Making Music Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-11-09. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
^"Cumbia: the Danceable Musical Tradition that Defies Borders". Marfa Public Radio. 2017-08-31. Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
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^Parra Valencia, Diego (2019). El libro de la cumbia: Resonancias, transferencias y transplantes de las cumbias latinoamericanas. Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano / Discos Fuentes Edimusica S.A.
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