Cumbia

Cumbia The term cumbia, as it is used today, comprises a wide diversity of styles that originated in different parts of Latin America as adaptations and elaborations of the original Colombian genre. It may also include chucu-chucu, música costeña, música grupera, música tropical, sonideros, and vallenato. All of these stylistic representations, however, are unified by their common use of a basic rhythmic structure, that is, a repeated figure played by a scraper in double meter that consists of…