music champeta

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Champeta, is a musical and cultural phenomenon, also considered dance of the Colombian Caribbean region, social fact and musical genre of local origin of Afro-descendant areas of the districts of the Colombian streets of Cartagena and Barranquilla, linked to culture corregimiento San Basilio de Palenque and influenced by genres African colonies as well as the African continen

music champeta

It is a contemporary rhythm that was born 32 years ago in the city of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) with a strong influence of the village of San Basilio de Palenque and through meetings of Caribbean Music of the 80 that were held in Cartagena it then spread nationwide and influenced each other in similar international genres like Raggamuffin and others.

Gender Therapy began as an adaptation of African rhythms (soukous, highlife, mbquanga, juju) with Antillean vibrations (rap-reggae, Haitian compas, zouk, soca and calypso) and influences of the descendant of the indigenous and Afro-Colombian music (bullerengue, mapalé, zambapalo and chalupa). This fusion of rhythms set a new urban musical culture in the Caribbean context, that consolidated in the slums cartageneras mid-eighties.

Then in the 90s he suffered a series of changes both in content and in its music, accompanied by digital phenomena, boards (arrhythmic interventions) and still much loved as rejected by the elite sectors of the country, thus creating a very distinct genre its origins that inspired it.

In the beginning it spread through the powerful sound equipment called peaks (pick-up) that sound in the verbenas or houses. It is characterized by the rhythm section prevails over the melodic and harmonic lines, turning it into a dance musical expression in which strength and plasticity predominate overflowing. The instruments used in the implementation of this joyful and contagious rhythm are the voice, drums, electric guitars, bass, congas and the synth, which adds rhythmic effects.

This musical genre has, as its only elements, a temporary division of three accelerations, initial music, the choir and a third element called the espeluque, which is characteristic of strong and repetitive rhythms usually accompanied by plates (digital interventions)

With a popular and full of inventive language the champeteros sing their experiences. Letters, superimposed on African tracks or original music, demonstrate the rebellious attitude of the discriminated afrocartageneros sectors, lash out against social and economic exclusion or tell their dreams of change and progress.

Musicians interpreters [edit]

April and Soto (2002) referred to as the "stars of the champeta" artists who have managed to transcend the local environment and sign contracts with large national and international record labels.

Here mention "The sayayin" (Jhon Jairo Sayas), "Mr. Black "(Edwin Antequera)," The Afinaito "(Sergio Liñan)," Alvaro Barbarian "(Alvaro Zapata)," Rasta "(Louis Towers)," Elio Boom "(Francisco Corrales)," Twister King "( Israel Goméz), Kevin Florez (Kevin Rafael Florez), "Yao & Zaa", "Anne Swing" (Viviano Torres), "Charles King" (Carlos Reyes), "Eddy Jey" Zaider (junior zaider Peralta), among others .

The latter's intention to improve the image of the word champeta, repeatedly hidden its meaning from social aspect and in his speech do not want to be associated with anything more than music or commercial music genre, hiding any meaning as their relationship with the pocket knife, with the historical past regarding ethnic economic status of African-Cartagena, with its relationship with the peaks, with their status in the visual arts, popular cinema and how to talk or dress, and away from all this rather always maintains partnerships with mystical and iconic phenomena in Africa and palisade, and their designs are more refers to the Rastafarian that the identity of the city of Cartagena de Indias or peoples of the bolivar. Torres also as an important phenomenon of champeta grouped the first singers of this genre in the musical group Swing Anne had international success in the late 80s, becoming in the Top 40 of the US4

Aspectos culturales y Hecho social

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