The South American music joropo often deals with horses and cowboys. The Colombian band Cimarrón has made the genre more inclusive by adding Indigenous and Afro-Colombian themes and sounds.

GOMEZ SARMIENTO: But the song is not a straightforward joropo. There's also Spanish guitar, thumping percussion, flutes. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JOROPO") JUDELINE: (Singing in Spanish).

The history of this musical genre in Colombia is told in the Que viva el joropo [es] (“Long Live Joropo”) blog:. Es el baile folklórico más representativo de los Llanos colombo-venezolanos; es una de ...

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Colombians prepare to celebrate important regional folkloric music and dance in the 44th International Joropo Tournament. Joropo is a musical style with African and European roots that resembles the ...

Cimarrón, perhaps the best-known joropo band, was founded more than two decades ago by the harpist Carlos Cuco Rojas and the singer Ana Veydó. The band has enjoyed a storied career, ...