The term Cumbia refers to both a style of Colombian folk-dance music, which originated on the country's northern Atlantic coast, and its dominant rhythm., Cumbia was a synthesis of the traditions of three separate cultures: former slaves of African descent, who contributed the rhythms and percussion instruments; descendants of European colonists, primarily Hispanics, who influenced the music's melodic progressions; and native Americans descended from Andean tribes, who affected cumbia's melodic and harmonic sense and also contributed the flutes on which cumbia was initially played. Cumbia's infectious, highly danceable beat found its way overseas, beginning around the 1960.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdktZJ-Qijk&NR=1
Friday, August 26, 2011
The grandaughter of famed traditional singer, 'Toto La Momposina', explains the origins of the Cumbia and its importance in Colombia's historical social fabric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5yTrmo4eU
Cumbia is a Latin American music style that originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region. Traditional cumbia and its associated dance is considered to be representative of Colombia, along with Vallenato, Bambuco and Pasillo. Cumbia originated in the Caribbean coast of eastern Colombia, but there are also folkloric variants in Panama. During the mid-20th century, Colombian band leaders such as Pacho Galan and Lucho Bermudez orchestrated this Caribbean folklore and brought it to different parts of Latin America, where it gained particular popularity in Mexico, Argentina, and the Andean region. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the African slave population that was later mixed with European instruments and musical characteristics. Cumbia is very popular in the Andean region and the Southern Cone and was until the early 1980s more popular in these regions than the salsa.[1]
http://www.last.fm/music/Aniceto+Molina/_/Cumbia+Colombiana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5yTrmo4eU
Cumbia is a Latin American music style that originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region. Traditional cumbia and its associated dance is considered to be representative of Colombia, along with Vallenato, Bambuco and Pasillo. Cumbia originated in the Caribbean coast of eastern Colombia, but there are also folkloric variants in Panama. During the mid-20th century, Colombian band leaders such as Pacho Galan and Lucho Bermudez orchestrated this Caribbean folklore and brought it to different parts of Latin America, where it gained particular popularity in Mexico, Argentina, and the Andean region. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the African slave population that was later mixed with European instruments and musical characteristics. Cumbia is very popular in the Andean region and the Southern Cone and was until the early 1980s more popular in these regions than the salsa.[1]
http://www.last.fm/music/Aniceto+Molina/_/Cumbia+Colombiana
CUMBIA
e grandaughter of famed traditional singer, 'Toto La Momposina', explains the origins of the Cumbia and its importance in Colombia's historical social fabric.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Afropop : Neo-Cumbia Sounds From Colombia
Afropop Worldwide presents a program all about the exciting and experimental music scene in Colombia today. A new generation of Colombian youth are delving into Afro-Colombian roots music, using traditional sounds as rich fodder for 21st-century experiments in global pop. At the same time, musicians and DJs the world over are getting excited again about Colombia’s seemingly limitless musical offerings.
http://www.afropop.org/radio/radio_program/ID/807
Around Latin America, Colombia is known as the heartland of cumbia, one of the most-listened-to styles in the Americas. But in Colombia itself, cumbia's popularity came and went in the 60s and 70s. Until now. A new generation of young Colombians are digging into Afro-Colombian roots music as a rich source for modern musical fusions. We speak with some of the hottest young Colombian artists in this movement today, including Sistema Solar, Bomba Estereo, Choc Quib Town, and many more. Plus, we take a look at the neo-cumbia renaissance sweeping dance floors around the world, and take an eye to the music's new-found global vogue among blogging hipsters and digital beatsmiths.
http://www.afropop.org/radio/radio_program/ID/807
Around Latin America, Colombia is known as the heartland of cumbia, one of the most-listened-to styles in the Americas. But in Colombia itself, cumbia's popularity came and went in the 60s and 70s. Until now. A new generation of young Colombians are digging into Afro-Colombian roots music as a rich source for modern musical fusions. We speak with some of the hottest young Colombian artists in this movement today, including Sistema Solar, Bomba Estereo, Choc Quib Town, and many more. Plus, we take a look at the neo-cumbia renaissance sweeping dance floors around the world, and take an eye to the music's new-found global vogue among blogging hipsters and digital beatsmiths.
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