Join me as I walk through the streets of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The city is anchor to the Monterrey metropolitan area, the second most productive in Mexico with a GDP (PPP) of US$123 billion, and the second largest metropolitan area in Mexico with an estimated population of 5,341,171 people as of 2020. Monterrey is one of the most livable cities in Mexico, and a 2018 study found that suburb San Pedro Garza García is the city with the best quality of life in Mexico. It serves as a commercial center of northern Mexico and is the base of many significant international corporations. The central downtown has a population of about a million, but the metropolitan area that includes all of its adjacent suburban municipalities brings its total city population to just under 4 million.
About the music (History of Cumbia Rebajada)
Cumbia rebajada is a musical subgenre derived from the Colombian cumbia and the Mexican cumbia that emerged in the city of Monterrey, in northern Mexico.
Due to the immigration of Colombians to the city of Monterrey in the second half of the 20th century and the importation of records from Mexico City, 7 different musical genres from that country became popular, such as cumbia, vallenato and porro. This popularization through public dances and parties would give rise to the phenomenon known as colombias or lo colombia in the 60s in places like the Independencia neighborhood, the "Indepe". According to Gabriel Duéñez, a sonidero for four decades and a Colombian music collector from Monterrey, the reduction had an accidental origin when in his Sonido Duéñez the control of the beats per minute of the music player broke down and he began to interpret Colombian music with slower speed. , resulting in a "lowered, more watered down" rhythm.
From playing so much, for five to six hours, the equipment heated up causing it to rev the record less, and thus the lowered tone arrived. "Later, I tried to repair the turntable and, well, I couldn't, I had better leave it that way. -Gabriel Duéñez"
Those attending his dances began to ask Duéñez to interpret the "lowered" music and not in his normal rhythm. Both Gabriel and other vendors in Monterrey began to trade cassettes and later compact discs of discounted versions of popular cumbias. Given the people's liking, Colombian music groups from Monterrey began to compose and perform at that rate. The lowered cumbia and the Colombian subculture would remain in Monterrey, being part of the characteristics of the cultural phenomenon called Cholombiano. The lowered aesthetic would also be an influence where groups such as Sonido La Changa and Sonido Siboney continue the style by manipulating the tempo of old Colombian songs turning them into hits in Mexico and Central America.
22 июн 2021
