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cumbia

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cum·bi·a  (kmb-)
n.
1. A Latin-American dance originating among African slave populations on Colombia's Atlantic coast and characterized by short sliding steps.
2. Music for this dance.

[American Spanish.]


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Its clubby grooves are layered in cumbia, palo, '70s soul, hip-hop, dancehall and dub -- not unlike the urban melange of L.
Steps/movement: Basic step (front to back), Rumba (side step), Cumbia (back step).
In Costa Rica, where dancing ranks close to soccer as a national pastime, the insistent wood-block percussion of cumbia rattles inside crowded buses and from the speakers of beachside clubs, where dancers kick up sand under the moonlight.
 
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