dance cumbiaVersión en línea The word is short for cumbiamba cumbia, this term should be related to the West Indian voice "Cumbancha" in Cuba means fun or partying, both derived from the black voice "cumbe" black dancing or Spanish Continental Guinea "Kumba "word according to anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, means making noise. "Cumbe" Dance of African origin in the language dictionary is registered as black dance. por NUBIA STELLA SILVA CARREÑO 1 LA CUMBIA Cumbia is the most representative choreo-musical expression of Afro-Colombian culture; joy, rhythm and drums are the African contribution, melody and indigenous bagpipes. In dancing cumbia, man represents the African ethnicity and Indian women, the Spanish contribution is in the female wardrobe; thus being the fusion of the three cultures. What makes the cumbia in the musical-cultural phenomenon would dance more representative of the Colombian culture 2 LA CUMBIA 3 CUMBIA COLOMBIANA 4 OUR MUSIC COLOMBIA It is a popular rhythm in different Latin American countries, where he has followed different adaptations cumbia Venezuelan, Uruguayan cumbia, cumbia Salvadoran, Chilean cumbia, cumbia Ecuadorian, Mexican cumbia, Peruvian cumbia, Argentina cumbia, cumbia slum, among some others. Cumbia is a dance and rhythm with content from three different cultural aspects: (Spanish) indigenous, black, white, fruit of a long and intense mixing between these cultures during the conquest and colonization of the American lands.
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