Rumba is a secular genre of Cuban music involving dance, percussion, and song. It originated in the northern regions of Cuba, mainly in urban Havana and...
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influence on Cuban rumba, particularly on its vocal style. However, musicologists agree that rumba flamenca does not truly derive from Cuban rumba, but from...
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Some elements from Cuban rumba were also incorporated, although minor, despite the name. Although unlikely, both guaracha and Cuban rumba might have been...
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Rhumba (redirect from Ballroom rumba)
music with Afro-Cuban rhythms, primarily the son cubano, but also conga and rumba. Although taking its name from the latter, ballroom rumba differs completely...
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Clave (rhythm) (redirect from Rumba clave)
and Cuban music. In Spanish, clave literally means key, clef, code, or keystone. It is present in a variety of genres such as Abakuá music, rumba, conga...
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Rumba may refer to: Cuban rumba, a traditional Cuban music genre Galician rumba, a music genre of Galicia, Spain, influenced by Cuban music. Rhumba, also...
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derived from the Andalusian flamenco rumba, with influences from Cuban music and rock and roll. The Catalan rumba originated in the Romani communities...
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Cuba. p. 29. "Décima y Rumba". Scribd.com. Retrieved July 6, 2015. Orovio, Helio 2004. Cuban music from A to Z. p. 191 Daniel, Yvonne 1995. Rumba: dance...
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mid-1940s and 1950s, the syncopated Afro-Cuban rhythms of Cuban son bands exerted a significant influence on Congolese rumba. This can be seen in the rhythmic...
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Guaguancó (category Rumba)
Guaguancó (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaɣwaŋˈko]) is a subgenre of Cuban rumba, combining percussion, voices, and dance. There are two main styles: Havana...
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Cajón (redirect from Cuban box drums)
applied to other box drums used in Latin American music, such as the Cuban cajón de rumba and the Mexican cajón de tapeo. Sheets of 13 to 19 mm (1/2 to 3/4...
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titled Rumba (named for the Cuban rumba musical genre), it was a result of a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana, Cuba in February 1932. Gershwin...
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Quinto (drum) (redirect from Rumba quinto)
and highest pitched type of conga drum. It is used as the lead drum in Cuban rumba styles such as guaguancó, yambú, columbia and guarapachangueo, and it...
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Son cubano (redirect from Cuban Son)
Afro-Cuban rumba traditions, and others brought their rumbitas and montunos. It was in Havana where the encounter of the rumba rural and the rumba urbana...
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Congolese music. In 2021, Congolese rumba joined other living traditions such as Jamaican reggae music and Cuban rumba on UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage...
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Los Muñequitos de Matanzas (category Rumba musical groups)
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas is a Cuban rumba ensemble from the city of Matanzas. The group was established in 1952 as Conjunto Guaguancó Matancero and...
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Renaissance dance Reog Rhumba (a.k.a. ballroom rumba; International Latin & American Rhythm) Cuban rumba (Cuba) Rigaudon Rinkafadda Robam Meh Ambao Robam...
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Reggaeton (redirect from Cuban reggaeton)
other genres, such as son Cubano, conga, cumbia, salsa, merengue, and Cuban rumba, as well as styles and forms such as rap and ballads, whereas the latter's...
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Mambo (music) (section Origins in Cuba)
he uses a triple meter U.S. "swing" rhythm fused with elements from Cuban rumba and son. Pérez Prado gained hits such as "Mambo No. 5" and "Mambo No...
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Ballroom dance (section Rumba)
son cubano and bolero (the Cuban genre) and, despite its name, it rarely included elements of Cuban rumba. It includes Cuban motions through knee-strengthening...
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Afro-Cubans or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical or cultural elements...
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fused with partner figures and turns adopted from the Cuban Mambo, Cuban Cha Cha Cha, Rumba Guaguancó and North American Jive. As with Son, Danzón and...
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Max Pollak (section RumbaTap)
created "RumbaTap", which merged American Rhythm Tap with Afro-Cuban music and dance. He is the only non-Cuban member of the Afro-Cuban Rumba and folklore...
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Yerba Buena (band) (category Cuban musical groups)
band's record label) is a blend of Latin music (Cuban rumba, Colombian cumbia, Pan-Caribbean Soca, and Cuban Boogaloo) with hip-hop, Motown, soul, Afrobeat...
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Mozambique (music) (category Cuban styles of music)
(pron.: mo.sam.'βi.ke) is a vigorous style of Cuban music and dance derived, like the conga, from music of Cuban street carnivals or comparsas. It was invented...
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The cajones de rumba are wooden boxes used as rhythmic percussion instruments in some styles of Cuban rumba. There are different types of cajones, namely...
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Monsieur Pierre (section The rumba arrives in London)
The ballroom rumba is so called despite the music, and the dance, being of a different genre from the authentic Cuban rumba. The rumba danced in America...
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Afro-Cuban All Stars is a Cuban band led by Juan de Marcos González. Their music is a mix of all the styles of Cuban music, including bolero, chachachá...
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at age 67. In 1981 the NYC based Afro-Cuban rumba vocal/percussion group, Totico y Sus Rumberos, recorded a rumba/guaguanco version of the song that was...
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Malanga (dancer) (category Rumba dancers)
Rosario Oviedo (October 5, 1885 – 1927), better known as Malanga, was a Cuban rumba dancer. He is considered one of the most famous columbia dancers and...
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