Cumbia is often something you hear before you know its name. It arrives early, at family parties, backyard gatherings, long afternoons that stretch into the night, folded into the background of daily ...

Peel back Colombian history a century or so, scratch around the coastal lowlands, and you’ll find a time and place before regional tropical-music genres had crystallized under the forces of Latin ...

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. All dance was seen as ...