"Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia,
the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or
East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from
a stereo. In Latin America, no musical style has been
as widespread, unifying and, I would argue, misunderstood
as cumbia."
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Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk
dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving
musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous
peoples, African slaves during colonial times, and
Europeans. It is said to have come from funeral
traditions in the Afro-Colombian community.
Pablo Lescano, singer of the Argentian Villera cumbia, Damas Gratis
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