LA CONGONA NEW CUMBIA

“In addition to their social origins (clase trabajadora), the fact that a local band could garner the amount of attention usually reserved for foreign groups was surprising.

Mainstream opinion held that their artist merit was debatable, their technology poor, and their so-called artwork merely instinctive. … But their success was obvious.”

1. Desandinación

2. Sensualidad

3. Globalización

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Los Shapis – Hombre Casado

-from: Andinos y Tropicales: La Cumbia Peruana en la Ciudad Global – Raúl R. Romero (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), pg. 31

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