Argentina: The queen of bailanta
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This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre alive.
Luciano Rombolá, host of the radio and digital program Cumbia de la Pura, calls Argentine cumbia "the tropical music of the end of the world." He also says that the history of this cumbia phenomenon cannot be analyzed without considering migration. Around the 1950s, the University of Buenos Aires welcomed foreign migrants, who could study for free.
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