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Genres and styles whose names start with CU.

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Cuarteto

Cuarteto (), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina. The roots of the cuarteto ensemble are in Italian and Spanish dance ensembles. The name was coined because the

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Cuban folk music

Cuban folk music includes a variety of traditional folk music of Cuba, and has been influenced by the Spanish and the African culture as well as the remaining indigenous population of the

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Cuban hip-hop

Cuban hip-hop is a genre of hip-hop. Hip-hop arrived in Cuba via radio and TV broadcasts from Miami. During the 1980s, hip hop culture in Cuba was mainly centered on breakdancing. By the 1990s, with

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Cuban rock

Rock and roll music was introduced in Cuba in the late 1950s, with many Cuban artists of the time covering American songs translated into Spanish, as was occurring in Mexico at the same time. "The

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Cuban rumba

Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and Matanzas, during the late 19th century. It is

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Cuban salsa

Casino is a dance from Cuba, which has commonly been known as Cuban Salsa or Salsa Cubana since the 1970s to distinguish it from other salsa styles. Casino takes its name from casinos deportivos, the

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Cueca

Cueca () is a family of musical styles and associated dances in which 'the dancers, who carry a handkerchief in their right hand, trace circular figures, with turns and half-turns, interrupted by

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Cumbia

Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans

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Cumbia (Colombia)

Cumbia () is a folkloric genre and dance from Colombia. The cumbia is the most representative dance of the coastal region in Colombia, and is danced in pairs with the couple not touching one another

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Cumbia (Panama)

Cumbia is a musical genre and folk dance from Panama. The cultural importance of cumbia has been recognized by UNESCO in its inclusion of it on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural

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Cumbia pop

Cumbia pop, also known as Cumbia cheta, is a musical subgenre that fuses cumbia with elements of pop and Latin pop. Originated in the 2000s in the Río de la Plata region (which encompasses Uruguay

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Cumbia rebajada

Cumbia rebajada is a musical subgenre derived from Colombian cumbia and Mexican cumbia that emerged in Monterrey, Nuevo León

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Cumbia santafesina

Cumbia santafesina is a musical style that arose in Santa Fe, Argentina. It is distinguished by taking the guitar and the accordion as the main instruments. Another distinctive feature of cumbia

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Cumbia villera

Cumbia villera () (roughly translated as "slum cumbia", "ghetto cumbia", or "shantytown cumbia", from villa miseria, "slum") is a subgenre of cumbia music originating in Argentina in the late 1990s

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Cumulative song

A cumulative song is a song with a simple verse structure modified by progressive addition so that each verse is longer than the verse before. Cumulative songs are popular for group singing, in part

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Cuplé

The cuplé was a popular risqué Spanish theatre song style in the late years of the 19th century. From 1893 to 1911 the songs were a feature of the "género ínfimo" (lowest type) cabaret theatre sung

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