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Cumbia
Colombia's coastal rhythm that swept across all of Latin America.
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Variants
Cumbia Colombiana
A Colombian coastal genre and partnered dance reconstructed through its diffusion, mutation, and transnational reception
7 min read
Cumbia Mexicana
A musical subgenre adapting the Colombian cumbia within Mexican song traditions
2 min read
Cumbia Sonidera
The sound-system cumbia of Mexico City
4 min read
Cumbia Villera
Argentina's shantytown cumbia and the marginal voice of the late-1990s crisis
8 min read