Cumbia

Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans during colonial times. Cumbia is said to have come from funeral traditions in the Afro-Colombian community. Cumbia traditionally uses three drums (tambora, tambor alegre and llamador), three flutes (gaita hembra and gaito macho, both forms of Colombian flute, and flauta de millo) and has a 22 or 24 meter. The sound of cumbia can be characterized as having a simple "chu-chucu-chu" rhythm created by the guacharaca.