Cumbia

Here we have another relic of the great national railway. This time in a town called Capilla del Monte, a place where some people don´t like Cumbia. Cumbia is a form of music that has taken Latin America by storm in recent years. Derived from a Colombian dance music style it has been reduced to its most basic rudimentary form. It is the most base music imaginable and it is absolutely everywhere. Every town has its own local style. In Buenos Aires a very popular form is Cumbia Villera which comes from the slums. It usually comprises of a distinctive, repetative rhythm knocked out of a cheese-grater and a tin can while someone plays an incessant melody on a squealing, guitarstyle casio keyboard thats flung around their neck. Subject matters for Cumbia Villera songs range between drinking your bottle of beer, riding on your donkey, sniffing your bag of glue, shooting your local policeman and screwing whores.
People either love it or hate it. I can´t say I particularly like it but it fascinates me.