Música Tropical
Música Tropical is a common term for a specific group of musical styles within Latin American music . It is mainly used for the Colombian cumbia and the Argentine sub-forms Cumbia Romántica and Cumbia Villera , but also for the Argentine cuarteto and z. Sometimes also for the folklore direction Chamamé . Common to all of these styles is a strong presence of the accordion . In this respect, the label tropical is actually misleading, because Argentina is not in the tropics and the designation would therefore only be correct for the cumbia, and secondly, numerous styles that originated in the tropics are not designated with Música Tropical.
A subculture began to develop around the music styles mentioned as early as the 1950s, especially in rural regions. In the 1980s this jumped into the big cities: In Buenos Aires, the so-called bailantas , discos where only these styles were played and were visited by immigrants from the interior. Around the mid-1990s, the styles also became more and more successful commercially, and between 1997 and 2002 they almost dominated the pop music scene in Argentina. Since 2002 other directions such as rock music and electronic dance music have been noticed more strongly again, but the música tropical is still particularly popular as dance music and "mood-maker" in discos.