Refusenik:Oh no! The spread of cumbia is a sign of the apocalypse! Civilization as we know it is coming to an end!
...All the DJs I am connecting with tell me that they want to hear cumbia and now is the moment to make it known.
Freaked Out Interviewer:
This electro-cumbia phenomenon is getting attention! Here in Argentina cumbia is associated with poor neighborhoods, the lower classes, ignorance, delinquency...
Although this interviewer's ignorance is both sad and laughable, I must say that there is something oddly comforting in knowing that class-based and racially-motived fears are being irrationally applied to music genres on both sides of the border. Maybe Argentina's anti-cumbia zealots could join forces with the United States' anti-gansta rap crowd and put together some kind of International Musical Ignorance Conference.
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I disagree... Argentines or better said, porteños, those who have been part of the history of Buenos Aires specifically, could easily clam up and wince a bit when Cumbia is mentioned... unless you're 15 or have the same mentality.
What you fail to know is that most of the Cumbia in Buenos Aires is about as evolved as a freshmen in high school... childish lyrics, casio keyboards, outlandish and spectacular 'fashion' and at times confuses love with sex and mostly sees women as objects.
Now, I know a thing or two about Cumbia, and rest-assured the 'Argentine Cumbia' is not what you'd hear coming from Latin America, nothing remotely as organic.
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