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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mexican cumbia
Mexican cumbia is the form of dance and music found in Mexico, derived from the form of music originated in Colombia, South America, called Cumbia during the Spanish colonial times.
Mexican singer Rigo Tovar further popularized this music by adding elements of rock and roll and introducing electric guitars and synthesizers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cumbia, pop, hip-hop, and rock, which are heavily influenced by music from the Caribbean islands and the United States, are increasingly becoming popular among Mexican youths on both sides of the border.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mexican-cumbia   (1192 words)

  
 Music of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mexican ranchera (country music) styles, including norteƱo and banda, are not only popular within Mexico itself, but they are also frequently enjoyed by Mexican immigrants in both rural and urban American communities.
Cumbia, pop, hip-hop, and rock, which are heavily influenced by music from the Caribbean islands and the United States, are increasingly becoming popular among Mexican youths on both sides of the border.
Mexican music was popularized in the United States in the late 1970s as part of a revival of mariachi music led by performers like Linda Ronstadt.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Mexico   (1787 words)

  
 Cumbia Music
Cumbia tends to be appreciated more by the lower social classes, and is often scorned by the upper classes.
In Argentina, for example, this social divide is exemplified by the cumbia villera phenomenon, that intends to represent and resonate with the poor and marginalized dwellers of villas miseria (shanty towns and slums), with lyrics glorifying theft and drug abuse.
Although the cumbia began with African drums and voice, soon native wind instruments, such as the gaita (a flute with a sharp tone), cane flutes and Spanish instruments, such as guitars and ouds (a type of lute), entered the arrangements.
www.legendvega.com /latinmusic/cumbia.htm   (589 words)

  
 Mexican music. Who is Mexican music? What is Mexican music? Where is Mexican music? Definition of Mexican music. ...
Mexican music was popularized internationally in the late 1970s as part of a revival of mariachi music in the United States; this was led by U.S. performers like Linda Ronstadt.
Mexican son has been rural for most of its history, and requires audience participation for zapateado, or foot-staping done in a counter-rhythm.
The 1980s saw Colombian cumbia become even more popular in Mexico than its native land, and it was by far the dominant genre throughout the decade, before banda overtook it in the 1990s.
knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Mexican_music   (1171 words)

  
 Cumbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cumbia is very popular in all of South America (except Brazil), as well as Central America and Mexico (see Mexican cumbia).
Cumbia tends to be appreciated more by the lower social classes, and is often scorned by the upper classes.
In Argentina, for example, this social divide is exemplified by the cumbia villera phenomenon, that intends to represent and resonate with the poor and marginalized dwellers of villas miseria (shanty towns and slums), with lyrics glorifying theft and drug abuse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cumbia   (258 words)

  
 Cumbia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
Cumbia is a (A republic in northwestern South America; the major legal crop is coffee but cocaine is also a major export) Colombian (A style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)) folk dance and (A genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing) dance music.
Cumbia is very popular in all of South America, and there are lots of different flavors of it.
It is called "The 90's Cumbia" or "90's (Click link for more info and facts about Glamorous cumbia) Glamorous cumbia", and emerged in Buenos Aires in the late 90's and the early 2000's.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/cumbia.htm   (619 words)

  
 Music of Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
Mexican music waspopularized internationally in the late 1970s as part of a revival of mariachi music in the UnitedStates ; this was led by U.S. performers like Linda Ronstadt.
Mexican son has been rural for most of its history, and requires audience participation for zapateado, or foot-staping done in acounter- rhythm.
The 1980s saw Colombian cumbia become even more popular in Mexico than its native land, and it was by far the dominantgenre throughout the decade, before banda overtook it in the 1990s.
www.therfcc.org /music-of-mexico-55070.html   (1138 words)

  
 Cumbia - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
The themes explored in the lyrics of the songs are mostly romantic, the message is possitive, and the attitude is glamorous and theatrical.
The music, brilliant for nature and very identified with 80's and dance instruments, diferes a lot from the other styles of cumbia, with synthezisers and keyboards as main instruments, electronical sounds and percusions, and a musical score very charged with harmonies of voices, icy sounds like brightness and pad-ens and trumpets (sometimes electronically emuled too).
Ursula Sol: llega con sabor a cumbia: cumbia, musica regional mexicana y grupera, son algunos de los ritmos nuevos que incluye la cantante solista Ursula...
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /cumbia.htm   (657 words)

  
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 Reviews - Mexican Sessions (Our Simple Sensational Sound)
The Mexican Sessions captures the creative input / output of cultural experimental that began in Mexico, married the bass and sexy rhythms of the Caribbean with the flavours of Mexican spices.
Mexican Sessions Our Simple Sensational Sound sees them head to Monterrey, Mexico to whip up another cross-culture creation this time blending together Dancehall, Dub, Rap, and Cumbia into a languid but heated mix which is the perfect herald for warmer days.
The big horns, accordions, and resonating percussive rolls of Mexican music wind their way through most of the tracks here, as well as Spanish sung lyrics so even without the title, the Mexican session theme is strongly played.
www.upbustleandout.co.uk /ubo/Reviews_Mexican_Sesisions.htm   (1954 words)

  
 Vallesounds - Music Cultures of Latin America, Jimena Varon, Colombia
The cumbia dance is actually a couples dance, but because candles are part of its choreography, it is believed that the festival had some influence in its creation.
During cumbia festivals, pregnant women (or women who were suspected of being pregnant) were not allowed to participate because of the fear of "stressing the fetus." Women who stayed at home while their husbands attended the festivals, decided to dance in secret.
This friend was reluctant to believe cumbia originated in Colombia and refused to believe Mexicans may have adopted the rhythm from Colombia to create a mix of cumbia and a Mexican rhythm.
www.vallesounds.com /valle/jvessay1.html   (2675 words)

  
 World Music Central - The New Alternative Latin and Reggaeton Sounds
Charanga Cakewalk's latest recording, Chicano Zen, combines Mexican, Texan and American sounds, including cumbia, rancheras, son jarocho with neolounge electronic music and world sounds.
Los de Abajo is a multicultural Mexican band that performs a combination of alternative rock, DJ scratching, dub, ska, electronic world and hip hop with Mexican cumbia, corridos and mariachi music.
Some of the lyrics on Lda V The Lunatics are politically charged criticizing Mexican social injustice.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20060410195653678   (520 words)

  
 Ramiro Burr
Mexican bands soon combined accordion music with the Mexican bajo sexto, a 12-string bass guitar.
Selena's danceable music represented a fusion of Mexican cumbia with traditional Tejano, blending with some rhythm and blues and hip-hop, Burr explains.
She was starting to cross over into pop music when she was shot to death by the president of her fan club on March 31, 1995, at a motel in Corpus Christi.
www.ramiroburr.com /ramiroAP.htm   (1038 words)

  
 Voices of New York
Colombians in particular are known for La Cumbia, a sensual movement with a strong historical background that dates back to the slavery period in the Americas.
And the Cumbia, what we thought was the dance of Colombia, was being taught by a half Puerto-Rican, half Colombian, to the surprise of both of us, teaching Mexican Cumbia.
"Mexican Cumbia?!!" we both exclaimed, "Does that exist?" With all the mixes of Latin American cultures in Queens, and in Jackson Heights in particular, it was no wonder that such a thing as Mexican Cumbia would some day be created and would in fact be more popular than Colombian Cumbia.
www.nyu.edu /classes/blake.map2001/columbia.html   (3057 words)

  
 World Music Mexico - Mexican Music
From the crisply played "Son de la Negra," with its tension-filled violin strings, to the fun-filled cumbia "Las Copetonas," this CD sparkles with the energy and verve of world-class mariachis.
She imbues the Mexican cumbia style--which is itself a variation on a Colombian form of dance music integrating Latin, Native American, and African styles--with blues, jazz, and even a little hip-hop as pre-Colombian and Mexican percussion nestles comfortably with strings and electric guitar, piano, and bass.
These are old Mexican classics, played by arguably the world's best mariachi group and sung by one of North America's greatest vocal talents.
www.almudo.com /Mexico-Music.htm   (823 words)

  
 Dance Move - Comments made by people about Dance Move
Cumbia style is most common in the Central and South American countries.
Cumbia is characterized by a very bouncy style with each partner doing alternating left turns.
Because Cumbia is very popular in Mexico and since the Latin community in the Twin Cities is largely Mexican, Cumbia is the most common style of Salsa danced in Minneapolis.
www.music-postings.com /dance/dance_move/dance_move_msg22093/dance_move_msg22093.shtml   (609 words)

  
 Mexican Independence Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
Make a run instead toPenn’s Landing this Sunday, where the Mexican Cultural Center is celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day (whichis officially this Thursday).
Los Hermanos Ruiz are flying infrom Mexico City to play popular styles from cumbia to ranchera, Selena to Ricky Martin.
Mexican Consul Manuel Lomberawill give the official grito (cry for independence) at the fiesta.
www.citypaper.net /articles/091699/ae.six.pick6.shtml   (151 words)

  
 Cumbia Lessons in Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
In this exciting class, you will learn the fundamental steps and lead/follow techniques used in traditional “partner-style” Mexican Cumbia - the same Cumbia danced in many modern nightclubs.
Cumbia is a lively dance and once you gain a strong understanding of the basic timing and basic step, your ability to grasp the turn combinations is greatly accelerated.
Our initial focus with Basic Cumbia is to teach you fundamentals first.
www.latinrhythmsdance.com /pops/basic_cumbia.html   (184 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Music - Tropical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
The grupo tropical's mainstay, the cumbia, was originally a Colombian folk dance that in the twentieth century became urbanized and diffused commercially throughout Latin America.
Upon reaching Mexico in the mid-1960s, the cumbia was appropriated by the working-class masses at about the same time that the four-instrument ensemble was emerging as a favorite dance group among urban working-class Mexicans.
At these dances the cumbia reigns supreme, although, again, most groups depend to one extent or another on the balada, which, with its slow 4/4 or 6/8 meter, offers a contrastive alternative to the usually up-tempo, lighthearted spirit of the cumbia.
www.galegroup.com /free_resources/chh/music/tropical.htm   (762 words)

  
 Mexican music, musica mexicana, dj, latin music, musica latina, regional mexican, mexican cd pool, music service, ...
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A monthly membership subscription that provides 2 CD compilations to DJs and Clubs with the latest new Mexican music before or at the same time US Mexican Radio stations receive it and weeks before it is available to retail stores.
Mexican Music Pool provides its members with a 2 disc compilation service.
www.mexicanmusicpool.com /home.html   (312 words)

  
 Music-Online-Store - International - Mexico
She imbues the Mexican cumbia style--which is itself avariation on a Colombian form of dance music integrating Latin, NativeAmerican, and African styles--with blues, jazz, and even a littlehip-hop as pre-Colombian and Mexican percussion nestles comfortably withstrings and electric guitar, piano, and bass.
BORDERS is dedicated to the Mexican migrants who struggle to cross the border into the US, and opens with a haunting contemporary lament in 'Mi Corazon Me Recuerda'.
Formed in 1998 as a loose collective of (mostly) Texas musicians with a love for traditional Mexican melodies, Los Super Seven took exactly one week to produce a self-titled debut that was an offhand marvel of norteandntilde;o tradition and intimacy.
www.music-online-store.com /node/international/mexico/140059.html   (6021 words)

  
 Mexican Tropical
When the Colombian cumbia arrived in Mexico in the 60's, it was adopted by the dancing public and soon developed into a truly Mexican hybrid.
And there are "grupera" cumbia artists that have mixed the onda grupera with the cumbia to get a distinctive, keyboard based tropical flavor.
Here are Real Audio samples of the kinds of music you will hear on stations that either mix cumbias with regional Mexican music or are full tropical stations.
www.davidgleason.com /hispanicformatsmexicantropical.htm   (115 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: Border   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
This Freida Kahlo (female Mexican painter) look- a-like remains true to her roots and ethnicity while bringing a new world music flavor to this potpourri of tracks.
Born of a Caucasian American father and Mexican Indian mother she is able to maintain a rich balance musically on both sides of the border.
She sings about the trials and tribulations of Mexican immigrants without slamming the country she was born in (United States).In fact, Border/La Linea could be the international immigrant anthem album for all races of the world...
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LNE0/ref=nosim/almudo09-20   (945 words)

  
 Caribbean and South American Music
From its roots in reggae toasting, through its mid-eighties conjunction with funk and soul, to its contemporary dalliances with pop sampling and dumbed-down rhythmic brutality, the rap vocal style has prospered or stagnated artistically to the extent that it has been able to exploit such stylistic reciprocity.
On their debut recording, the ten-piece Los Angeles based Ozomatli flawlessly integrates the raps of Chali 2na into a lively mix of musical influences, Mexican cumbia, African highlife, flamenco, funk, hip-hop, rumba, tablas, anything within reach and hearing in the broader cultural maelstrom.
"Cumbia de los Muertos" has the slight percussive hesitation of classic Colombian cumbia, rich harmony vocals accentuated by saxophones, a traditional performance which suddenly accelerates into hyperspace with Cut Chemist's turntable scratch, loopy dub reverb, and a brief, spirited rap by Chali 2na, all carefully coordinated.
www.rootsworld.com /rw/feature/latin-caribe.html   (3620 words)

  
 XMFan.com :: #1 Fan Site of XM Satellite Radio :: More mexican cumbia and dance on Friday nights please!
More mexican cumbia and dance on Friday nights please!
But as for the Cumbia, and other forms of Latin music, I have yet to hear it other than the 'Regional Mexican' on three local AM stations here in Utah.
Regional Mexican: Mix of Ranchera, Tejano, Banda, and forms of music found in Northern Mexico.
www.xmfan.com /viewtopic.php?t=17651&view=previous   (651 words)

  
 ALEGRIA - Mexican Folk Dance Directory -- USA -- M-Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
Mexican culture is rich with excitement and energy which surrounds anyone who listens to it.
Calpulli was formed in 2003 by a group of professionals of diverse dance and theatrical backgrounds who shared a vision of establishing a dynamic dance organization with a commitment to live music, history, theatre and community outreach.
The group was formed to promote the Mexican culture through the art of dance and to encourage students to take an active roll in learning and teaching others about the Hispanic heritage.
www.alegria.org /body_dirUSA-M-Z.html   (4718 words)

  
 arborweb reviews - review: Mexican Night at the Heidelberg
Ann Arbor may be a small town in Mexican American terms, but tonight an ensemble from Chicago, Grupo Explosión, takes the stage.
This is a big group for such a small room, and its members switch off among the instruments that give each of these national dances its particular flavor.
So go to listen — the range of Mexican and Mexican American music these days is an exciting thing and a reflection of the incredible variety of influences at work in the culture from which they spring.
www.arborweb.com /reviews/0208.heidelbergmex-review.html   (380 words)

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