Definitions
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- noun A traditional style of
Colombian dance and music, or a piece in this style
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Walk down one block, and there's a West African beat, a Latin American cumbia, and a Brazilian samba.
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"Walk down one block, and there's a West African beat, a Latin American cumbia, and a Brazilian samba.
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"Fuerte Apache" because it was reminiscent of Wild West movies, daily life in there is pretty much like an episode of The Wire; and yet young talent often emerges from within, and bands describe the reality with a hybrid of local musical style cumbia and rap, now known as cumbia villera.
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But these guys have been putting together some seriously swinging cumbia with Andean flavor, known as cumbia vilera, for the better part of the decade.
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Music called "cumbia" continues as day turns into night, around barrio corners, from crowded, colorful buses - sound of drum, recorder and a cheese-grater thingy that sounds like maracas when scraped.
Lea Lane: Covered in Flour! Just Back from Carnaval in Colombia
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After 10 years of steady touring and recording, the fiercely independent, Austin, Texas-based band has won a following among discerning Latin music fans for their funky take on older music styles such as cumbia, salsa and norteno.
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Bomba Estereo and Mexican Institute of Sound, which fuse traditional styles such as cumbia and norteño with electronica, disco, rap and rock.
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After 10 years of steady touring and recording, the fiercely independent, Austin, Texas-based band has won a following among discerning Latin music fans for their funky take on older music styles such as cumbia, salsa and norteno.
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After 10 years of steady touring and recording, the fiercely independent, Austin, Texas-based band has won a following among discerning Latin music fans for their funky take on older music styles such as cumbia, salsa and norteno.
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Bomba Estereo and Mexican Institute of Sound, which fuse traditional styles such as cumbia and norteño with electronica, disco, rap and rock.
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