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Traditional Dancing in Cartagena, Colombia -- Cumbia

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Uploaded by on Sep 17, 2011

Cumbia is a music style that originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the African slave population that was later mixed with European instruments and musical characteristics. Cumbia started in the northern coast of South America, what is now Colombia and Panama, mainly in or around Cartagena during the period of Spanish colonization. Spain used its ports to import African slaves, who tried to preserve their musical traditions and also turned the drumming and dances into a courtship ritual. Cumbia was mainly performed with just drums and claves.

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  • This one its not Cumbia, its Mapalé, another colombian dance that originate by the influence of the african salves brought to colombia in colonial times.

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