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The Culture of Cumbia: Exploring New York’s Sonideros Through Film

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The Culture of Cumbia: Exploring New York’s Sonideros Through Film

The phenomenon of sonideros, or cumbia dances led by sonidos (DJs), is a product of Mexico City’s late 1950s music scene. What started as humble street dances in working class neighborhoods, led by DJs spinning cumbia records on homemade sound systems (many resembling the towers of Jamaican sound system culture) [...]