LoginThe Rough Guide to Cumbia
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Cumbia is one of the world's great dance grooves. It is made up of merry guitars and accordions, torrid brass, and insistent, deep-toned drums and percussion, pounding out a lopsided, strutting 4/4 rhythm with a kick like nitroglycerine. Cumbia is the result of three colliding cultures that settled in Colombia at different times. Indigenous peoples were followed by the Spanish conquistadors, who added on Moorish influences from the sack of Granada. Finally, African slaves were brought in, and they supplied both the rhythm and the means to bring it forth. From its beginnings as a courtship dance among the slave population, cumbi
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Manufacturer: World Music Network
Release date: 1 August 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0605633104325 UPC: 605633104325
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Release date: 1 August 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0605633104325 UPC: 605633104325
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