My name is Dalila Eyiseth Realpe Mora, I study chemical engineering in the National University of Colombia, all my life I've liked the art especially folk dance. Currently belong to the group of dances at the National University of Colombia at Manizales.
The National University of Colombia at Manizales did not have a dance group set. Two years ago, started the first call was held to conduct three types of dance: Latin, Argentine and folkoric dance. since that time began to form the dance group of the National University of Colombia at Manizales. this group this conformed by 40 students of diferent careers. The dance group is one of the most important cultural groups of the university, because it represnts the history of Colombia through the dance and this is a space for the integral formation of students.
In this blog you will find information about the group, such as photographs, videos, presentations and much information about Colombian history, you can also read about the test days, the place and date if you're interested to join this group.
Cumbia is a Colombian musical style and folk dance that is considered to be representative of Colombia, along with Vallenato. Cumbia originated from the Caribbean coast of eastern Colombia, with folkloric variants in Panama. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the African slave population that was later mixed with European instruments and musical characteristics.
ResponderEliminarHistory:
ResponderEliminarIt is often asserted that Cumbia is a variant of Guinean cumbé music. However, it should be noted that the rhythm of Cumbia can be found in music of Yoruba (more specifically, the rhythm is associated with the god Obatala), and in other musical traditions across West Africa. 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.
The slaves were later influenced by the sounds of the new world instruments from the Kogui and Kuna tribes, who lived between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Montes de María in Colombia and Kuna Yala in Panama. . Millo flutes, Gaita flutes, and güiros were instruments borrowed from these new world tribes. The interaction between Africans and natives of the new world under the Spanish caste system created a mixture from which the gaitero (cumbia interpreter) appeared, with a defined identity by the 1800s. (These gaiteros are not the same as the Venezuelan Zulian gaiteros.) The European guitars were added later through Spanish influence. According to legend, the accordion was added after a German cargo ship carrying the instruments sank as a load of accordions washed ashore on the northwest coast of Colombia.