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American cumbia; Tex-Mex cumbia; Tejano or Tex-Mex music, a popular music style that fuses elements of cumbia with other genres of Mexican and American origin that developed in Texas and Mexico in the 20th century. Cumbia rap, a variant of cumbia that is popular in the United States and Latin America that includes elements of hip-hop and rap
The single largest niche industry is based on Latin music. Latin music has long influenced American popular music, and was an especially crucial part of the development of jazz. Modern pop Latin styles include a wide array of genres imported from across Latin America, including Colombian cumbia, Puerto Rican reggaeton, and Mexican corrido ...
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 Mexican cumbia has adapted versions of Colombian music like Peruvian cumbia or Argentine cumbia, among others.This diversity has appeared in different ways. For example, originally the northern cumbia (cumbia norteña) was usually played with accordion and consists of tunes with few chords and slower speed than original cumbia.
Latin American music also incorporate the indigenous music of Latin America. [2] Due to its highly syncretic nature, Latin American music encompasses a wide variety of styles, including influential genres such as cumbia , bachata , bossa nova , merengue , rumba , salsa , samba , son , candombe and tango .
Similarly to the 1980s, rock music was also very popular in the 1990s, yet, unlike the new wave and glam metal-dominated scene of the time, grunge, [1] Britpop, industrial rock, and other alternative rock music emerged and took over as the most popular of the decade, as well as punk rock, ska punk, and nu metal, amongst others, which attained a ...
Also in the 1970s, Rigo Tovar became popular with his fusion of Cumbia with ballad and rock. Today Cumbia is played in many different ways, and has slight variations depending on the geographical area like Cumbia sonidera, Cumbia andina mexicana, Cumbia Norteña, Tecno-cumbia. Popular Mexican Cumbia composers and interpreters include Rigo Tovar ...
Tribal guarachero music is a fusion of genres such as regional Mexican music, including technobanda, and EDM genres such as techno, electro house and club music. [6] With a 4/4 time signature, the genre is often made up of cascading triplets [6] and a BPM of 140 to 280. [citation needed] The rhythm employs Afro-Cuban rhythms and Latin synths. [8]