Colombian music terminology includes words derived from Spanish and other languages. Modern Colombian music is a mixture of African, native Indigenous and European (especially Spanish) influences, as well as more modern American and Caribbean musical forms, such as Trinidadian, Cuban, and Jamaican. ...

• agüelulo: A teenage gathering, originally held in private homes and then larger spaces; a teenager who frequented such a place was a agüelero or sometimes a cocacolos, after the main beverage drunk at agüelulos, Coca Cola^[1]
• música andina: An early national style of the 19th and early 20th centuries, developed from the Andean interior^[1]
• música antillana: A kind of popular dance music based on Cuban and Puerto Rican styles^[1]
• audición: literally listening, can refer to a "special musical tribute to the career of a particular artist or group", performed before the beginning of a concert^[1]
• baile: Literally, dance, dances are alphabetized under their descriptor, e.g. baile de cuota is alphabetized under cuota
• bambuco: An Andean style of dance music, perceived as a national music in the early 20th century^[2], or an Andean lyric music performed along with pasillo as a common part of the música andina repertoire^[1]
• balada: In popular music, refers to a kind of "Spanish romantic popular music", found across Latin America^[1]
• bandola: A stringed instrument similar to a mandolin, used in llanera^[2] and musica andina^[1]
• bandolin: A larger relative of the bandola^[2]
• bingo bailable: A dance that includes bingo games and salsa music^[1]
• bolero: A loose term for love ballads^[1]
• bombo: A drum used in folklore groups on the Atlantic coast, layed with sticks and used to start a performance by calling on the other drums to perform^[2]; a bass drum used in traditional cumbia ensembles^[1]
• bugalú: An early form of New York salsa, popular in Colombia during the 1960s^[1]
• bullerengue: A Costeño form, performed by flute-and-drum ensembles^[1]
• caja vallenata: A vallenato drum originally made from goatskin^[2]
• camaján: An alternate term for the pachuco^[1]
• campana: A cowbell^[1]
• campanero: A performer of the cowbell, notably played by audience members along with the on-stage performer^[1]
• capachos: Maracas^[2]
• música caribeña: A rarely-used synonym for música antillana^[1]
• carrilera: A form of guitar-based music from the Antioquia province, associated "with the urbanizing peasant or working class"^[1]
• carrizo: A form of Colombian folk flute^[2]
• caseta: A dance hall^[1]
• cencerro: A timbales cowbell^[1]
• champeta: A form of rootsy music from the Pacific coastal city of Cartagena, where an Afro-Colombian population developed the style^[2]; an Afro-Colombian style associated with Cartagena and Barranquilla, which combines elements of African pop, soca, zouk, mbaqanga and soukous^[1]
• champús bailable: A Caleño tradition of house parties, which began in the 1930s and were usually held on Sundays^[1]; champú, a beverage made from pineapple, corn, bitter orange leaves and a fruit called lulo^[1]
• chandé: A Costeño form, performed by flute-and-drum ensembles^[1]
• chirimía: A kind of ensemble found in the northwest corner of Chocó province^[1]
• chucu-chucu: An alternate term for raspa^[1]
• cokacolo: A teenage dancer at a agüelulo^[1]
• contrapunteo: An improvised, verbal duel^[2]
• música colombiana': Colombian music, formerly understood to refer to música andina in the 19th and early 20th century, when that style was perceived as a national music
• baile de cuota: A type of dance party in Cali's working class neighborhoods during the mid-20th century^[1]
• cuatro: A small guitar, used in llanera^[2]
• currulao: A marimba-based music found along the southwest littoral Valle, Cauca and Nariño provinces of Colombia, as well as Esmeraldas in Ecuador^[1]
• cumbia: A form of nation music, originally from the Atlantic coast and characterized by a "solidly grounded and complex layered rhythm with an airily syncopated melody"^[2]
• empanada bailable: An alternate term for champú bailable, referring to the empanadas often served
• fandango: A Costeño song form, performed by flute-and-drum ensembles^[1]
• festivales: Community dances in Cali, held in neighborhood dance halls or pavilions^[1]
• fiesta patronales: Saints days^[1]
• flauto de millo: See millo, flauto de
• gaita: A folk flute^[2]; a Costeño form, performed by flute-and-drum ensembles^[1]; conjunto de gaita is a traditional cumbia ensemble^[1]
• guabina: A kind of música andina^[1]
• guacharaca: A scraper, common in vallenato
• guache: Rattles made from filling metal or gourd tubes with seeds^[2]
• guateque: Originally a cuban word referring to a rural campesino party, which came to refer to a a form of salsa dura, characterized by "slow, grinding son montunos with heavy bass and percussion"^[1]; associated also with El guateque de la salsa (The Salsa Party), a popular radio show from 1989 to 1993^[1]
• música de la interior: An Andean style, often used synonymously with bambuco, characterized by a gentle and melodic sound and a well-developed melody at the expense of rhythmic complexity^[2]
• joropo: Originally a folk dance performed in honor of saints days and other special occasions, such as birthdays and baptism^[2]; now more often a generic word for llanera based dance music^[2]; a courtship dance associated with central Colombia and that region's cowboy culture, a "dynamic, polyrhythmic mestizo style that fuses Andalusian, African and indigenous elements"^[1]
• kiosco: A community pavilions, used for musical performances^[1]
• llamador: A drum, traditionally used in cumbia as well as modern música tropical^[1]
• llanera: A form of harp-led music^[2]
• marimbula: A low-pitched thumb piano^[2]
• flauto de millo: A folk clarinet of the Atlantic coast^[2]
• melómano: A "music aficionado"^[1]
• música: Literally music, music forms are alphabetized by their descriptor, e.g. música antillana is alphabetized under antillana
• música de negros: Literally black people's music, a pejorative term used by the elite to deride musics such as música antillana^[1]
• nueva ola: Literally new wave, a kind of pop-balada performed by romantic crooners, which peaked in the 1960s and 70s^[1]
• orquesta: A dance band^[1]
• 'orquesta femenina: An all-female dance ensemble^[1]
• orquesta infantile: An all-child dance ensemble^[1]
• orquesta juvenile: An all-youth dance ensemble^[1]
• pachanga: An early form of New York salsa, popular in Colombia during the 1960s^[1]
• pachuco: An iconic figure, a "ruffian and a hustler... an antihero", especially important in the culture surrounding the Zona de Tolerancia^[1]
• parrandero: A typical lyrical focus of the more macho side of popular cumbia, referring to a boasting, aggressive and sexual "party-going man"^[2]
• pasillo: A lyric song form from the Andean region^[1]
• el paso Caleño: A traditional dance step from the city of Cali, characterized by a "rapid 'double-time' shuffle on the tips of the toes"^[1]
• picó: Derived from the English pickup, a large sound system among DJs in Cartagena and Barranquilla during the 1980s^[1]
• pop tropical: A form of mid-1990s pop-salsa^[1]
• porro: A village brass band^[2]; a song form performed by the flute-and-drum ensembles of the Atlantic coast region, as well as mid-20th century urban dance orquestas^[1]
• raspa: A simplied form of música tropical which emerged in the late 1960s^[1]
• refajo: A street slang from the Zona de Tolerancia in Cali^[1]
• rock en español: Spanish language rock music, most closely associated with the cities of Bogotá and Medellín in Colombia^[1]
• rumba: Partying or merry-making^[1]
• salsa: A Spanish Caribbean dance music created in New York City using elements of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music, a combination known in Colombia as musica antillana^[1]
• salsíbiri: A term coined by Fruko to describe his own style^[1]
• sals&oacute'mano: A salsa fan^[1]
• salsoteca: A venue that plays salsa
• serenata: A pan-Latin tradition of street serenades performed by small groups of instrumentalists, especially guitarists^[1]
• tambor hembra: The lead frum of the Atlantic coast drum choirs^[2]
• tambor macho: A conga-like drum that leads the basic rhythm of the Atlantic coast drum choirs^[2]
• terapia: An alternate term for champeta^[1]
• musica tropical: A form of salsa-based music innovated by Joe Arroyo^[2]; a form of dance music based on various Atlantic coast genres^[1]
• tiple: A small stringed instrument, used in llanera^[2] and musica andina^[1]
• vallenato: A form of accordion-based music, related to música tropical and cumbia, and originally associated with the Atlantic Coast
• vallenato-protesta: A form of vallenato-based protest song^[2]
• verbena: Free street parties held during the December Feria and sponsored by the city of Cali^[1]
• zarzuela: Operettas^[1]

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Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn} Wazer, Lise A. (2002). The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6441-7.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z} Burton, Kim. "El Sonido Dorado". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, pp 372-385. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1-85828-636-0