Colombia - Currulao, Diaspora Negra 14 2009

Is the most African influence styles in all of Colombia and has its roots among the Afro-Clombian/African-descendent/Balck people of the Pacific Coast. Son tambor, members of the Antioquia, & Tambores de Colombian and community, member have united in a collaborative project to represent Afro-Colombian culture and traditions.

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• Oxum
• Lansan.Colombia
• Currulao
• Diaspora
• Negra
• 14
• de
• agosto
• 2009
• Son
• Tambor
• Federico
• Ardila
• May
• Li
• Khoe
• Luis
• Maurette
• Laila
• Espinoza
• Pablo
• Velez
• Laura
• Cambron
• Miguel
• Gonzalez
• Natalia
• Ocoro
• orlando
• Briseno
• Antioquia
• Adley
• Penner
• Craig
• Miller
• Directed
• by
• Diana
• Suarez
• Johana

[mrmgrwlr]

@rootsnlivity Again its awareness of the influences...The euro isnt going to say " hey you stole my culture! Give me back my clarinet!". The native isnt going to say " Hey I want my maracas back... only I can use them". So why the tambor? It would be hard to find a Colombian who didnt know what an arepa was... or who had never heard the 'pollera colora'. If you remove one of the three then it ceases to be Colombian.

[mrmgrwlr]

@rootsnlivity Sweden is homogeneous. Colombia is mixed. Regionalization occurs in many countries. Colombia with its extreme diversity is no exception. Your point becomes an issue of awareness and acceptance/denial of what already exists... multiculturalism. Ones opinion of it doesn't matter. It already exists. You cant escape it. One may identify with only one of the 3 but one cant deny the influence of the other 2.The influences extend everywhere from customs, cuisine, music...

[rootsnlivity]

@maylikhoe tu sales en el video?

[rootsnlivity]

@mrmgrwlr Most "Colombians" identify only with one of those cultures most of the time actually....

[rootsnlivity]

@jujosuva Please, there are Black Colombians here in the United States and not all Black Colombians are suffering....come on now....

[rootsnlivity]

@mrmgrwlr that's not true, children anywhere do not learn dances of every region. Most children will learn only the dances specific to their region. Colombia differs by region and there is no one "Colombian identity", Colombia has many identities, it is not homogeneous as you paint it.

[mrmgrwlr]

@rootsnlivity Good point but flawed. The three pillars of Colombian identity are the European, African and Indigenous cultures. To remove one would be to topple all. All three have strong contributions to Colombian culture. Children regardless of race are probably going to learn the same dances and music. I grew up learnnig the guabina, bambuco, currulao, bullerengue, cumbia and joropo etc. All three influences present ;) Diminishing one or discounting another is ridiculous.

[maylikhoe]

@rootsnlivity one more thing i forgot to mention. i ain't white. and i ain't light skinned mestiza. guess again ;-)

[jujosuva]

Do you know anything at all about the lives of these white meztisos you're talking about? My sister and i have been dancing afro-colombian dances since we were five. We have lived w communities of the pacific coast and the Black ppl of Colombia are not dancing bc they're either being displaced or are fighting to survive. If we have the opportunity to be in USA & the Black ppl i learned from asked for the tradition to continue why shouldn't i do it? do you do something to maintain your heritage?

[dimamusa]

thank you for posting this video! i am one of the choreographerst!! It is very important or us to bring this culture abroad because it is thru culture that we get to talk about the issues afro colombians facing at this very moment. By no means we are stealing their heritage, we in colombia all come from african heritage, if you knew a bit about it... awareness is what we bring to people in the US of a culture no one knows about. This culture is very fond to us even if our skin isn't black.