Glossary of Colombian Music - A

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• 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
• música andina - An early national style of the 19th and early 20th centuries, developed from the Andean interior
• música antillana - A kind of popular dance music based on Cuban and Puerto Rican styles
• 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