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The champeta emerges as the name or social event in the 1920s, as a dance in the 70s and as a musical genre in the '80s. Champeta knife or machetilla Even before the twenties champeta has been called the slum from the center of Cartagena, associated with the poorest and characteristics of African descent. This term was made by the economic elite in an attempt to disparage the culture survivor. This name, ambiguously accepted and transformed, originated by the ratio of that population with machetilla "champeta", and was associated with elements of vulgarity, poverty and blackness. Thus a culture is historically a past marked by slavery and abuse, focusing on the oldest neighborhoods located in the Cayman Islands, now called Poz n Olaya district. In the early 70's this cultural process becomes more visible in Colombia henry for the construction of a complex series of different dances to the beat of Caribbean music.This was mainly a mix of genres such as henry salsa and then raided the peasant but also dominica reggae. This music is put to all speakers in large volume, well-known peaks, which were invented in the 60s in Barranquilla, in addition to that the different journeys that Dominica people of that city were to countries in the Antilles and France to acquire the called "exclusive disks" that were mostly of African origin citation needed . Conditioning with these sound systems were presented dance competitions and other events. These first dances, being a relaxing and ignore the economic problems the country was called therapy. In the 80s you start to create a new genre, Creole therapy, sung and performed by characters Palanqueros Cartagena and San Basilio, which then raided people of Barranquilla, Santa Marta and even the rest of the country. Barranquilla was a very important role in the marketing of this genre.Subsequently, it began to be popular music in the peaks. Then the same happened genre of therapy called Colombian Creole therapy and finally champeta.