thumb|"La zamacueca" (Manuel Antonio Caro, 1873).The Zamacueca is an ancient colonial dance and music that originated in the Viceroyalty of Peru, taking its roots from Spanish, and Andean rhythms. It is known as a celebratory dance of independence as South America was liberating itself from Spanish rule. It is one of the earliest popular dances of coastal Peru and a direct predecessor of the marinera.
thumb|"La zamacueca" (Manuel Antonio Caro, 1873).The Zamacueca is an ancient colonial dance and music that originated in the Viceroyalty of Peru, taking its roots from Spanish, and Andean rhythms. It is known as a celebratory dance of independence as South America was liberating itself from Spanish rule. It is one of the earliest popular dances of coastal Peru and a direct predecessor of the marinera.
== History == The word Zamacueca comes from the 16th-century Spanish dance Zamba Antigua combined with kwa-kwa, which in the African Kikongo language means cajón. This fusion, called Zamba Kwa-kwa (“Zamba of the drum”) later evolved into Zamacueca. The origin of zamacueca, also known as canto de jarana or marinera limeña, comes from the mestizaje music that occurred between the Romani people and the Mulatto people that inhabited Lima during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Founded in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru served as a major administrative division of the Spanish Empire. It encompassed modern-day Peru and much of Spain's South American territories with political authority centered in the capital city of Lima. Zamacueca dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries when this mixed musical form began to stand out in the Rímac and Barrios Altos neighborhoods of Callao as well as in bars located among Lima's bridges, alleyways, and balconies. The dance primarily emerged among enslaved people as a rhythmic and seductive courtship dance.
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