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Another influence was the integration of Spanish people. The Spanish folksongs with influences from the indigenous caused the fusion of races and the elements of their cultures were likewise fused. [9] The history of cumbia has evolved throughout the years, known as a street dance but had a period of transiting into a ballroom dance. [10]
Cumbia (Spanish pronunciation:) is a folkloric genre and dance from Colombia. [1] [2] [3]The cumbia is the most representative dance of the coastal region in Colombia, and is danced in pairs with the couple not touching one another as they display the amorous conquest of a woman by a man. [4]
The Atlantic music features rhythms such as the cumbia, porros and mapalé. Music from the Pacific coast such features rhythms such as the currulao —which is tinged with Spanish influence— and the Jota chocoana (along with many more afro-drum predominating music forms)—tinged with African and Aboriginal influence. Colombian Andean has ...
In Spain, music has a long history. It has played an important role in the development of Western music, and has greatly influenced Latin American music. Spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar. While these forms of music are common, there are many different traditional musical and dance ...
Monument to the dance and music of cumbia in El Banco. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the African population on the Caribbean coasts of Colombia. It is a mixture of Spanish, Native Colombian and African music. The style of dance is designed to recall the shackles worn around the ankles of the slaves.
The music varies greatly between regions but cumbia is widely accepted as the national musical genre. [citation needed] Cumbia is a mixture of Spanish, Native Indigenous, and African music, the latter brought by slaves. The style of dance is designed to recall the shackles worn around the ankles of the slaves.
The history of Cumbia in Mexico is almost as old as Cumbia in Colombia. In the 1940s Colombian singers emigrated to Mexico, where they worked with the Mexican orquestra director Rafael de Paz. In the 1950s they recorded what many people consider to be the first cumbia recorded outside of Colombia, La Cumbia Cienaguera.
In the early 1970s, several Colombian cumbia bands and soloists (such as Lisandro Meza, La Sonora Dinamita, etc.), and Mexican cumbia groups (although the Mexican influence would not become very noticeable until the second half of the 1980s), more specifically in the line of grupera music (such as El Tiempo, Bronco (band) or Los Bukis, etc.) began to spread their music in countries such as ...