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What are the dance and music traditions that the Columbian culture do?
Posted by gitterdun in Dancing on 02 1st, 2010 | 2 responses
ladii bubbles asked:
I REALLY NEED HELP WITH THIS SO CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THE TRADITIONS OF DANCE AND MUSIC ABOUT THE COLOMBIAN CULTURE!!!!
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The Music of Colombia in an expression of the Colombian Culture, which contains diverse Music genres, traditional and moderns according with the features of each geographic region; although it is frequent to find different musical styles in the same region. The diversity in musical expressions found in Colombia can be seen as the result of a mixture of African, native Indigenous, European (especially Spanish) influences, as well as more modern American and Caribbean musical forms, such as Trinidadian, Cuban, and Jamaican.
Cumbia is originally a Colombian folk dance and dance music and is Colombia’s representative national dance and music along with vallenato. Cumbia is very popular, widely known in the Latin music mainstream throughout South America, Central America and Mexico, with lots of regional variations and tendencies. The traditional instruments of cumbia were mainly percussion; different types of drums, claves and a güiro, and woodwinds; flutes.
Modern cumbia includes instrumental mixing; guitars, accordions, bass guitar, modern flutes and modern deep-toned drums and other percussions. The basic rhythm structure is 4/4. Cumbia is the net intersection of two cultures that settled in the region of what is now northern Colombia at different times; the Amerindians and African slaves. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the slave population that was later mixed with the European instruments and influence.
Regarding the dance, it various depending on the variation of Cumbia, but generally the dance flows to a mild beat with fast turns.
Some of the surrounding countries have native music that emphasises the flute and or pan flutes. Some of this music has a mostly mellow spanish influence and is similar to some boleros incorporating small guitar type instruments and percussion. The music was often used in religious devotion to native dieties but is also mainstream pop in some areas. the afrocuban influence is widespread in south and central America also.