The purpose of this article, is to take an interest in a very marginalized urban musical genre in its own country and even in the region where it was born : the Colombian Caribbean. The champeta, which is mainly heard in the picó parties of the popular neighborhoods of Cartagena de Indias and Barranquilla, was and still is associated with the marginalized sectors of the Colombian Caribbean society, that is to say the poor population, mainly Afro-descendant and mestizo. But champeta cannot be considered apart from the socio-historical and socio-economic conditions of its existence: we will base ourselves in this aspect on the works of the Barranquilla sociologist Orlando Fals Borda, on the epistemological approaches of the feminist anthropologist Rita Segato and on the questionings of feminist and anti-racist decolonial activisms (Curiel, Espinosa), all coming from the Global South.
Keywords: Champeta, Feminism, Anti-racism, Colombia, Cartagena de Indias
