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- La Rumba comes Matanzas, La Habana Cuba, around the 1800.
- The word (a derivation of the spanish word rumbo, the way..) designates the late night parties where people get together, usually in vacant lots, to dance and sing.
- It is music composed of songs and percussion, with the rhythm starting slowly first and then accelerating its pace as it goes along.
- At first, drawers from closets were used for percussion, now congas are used.
Around the 18th century, the cuban guaracha was adopted by the gypsies in Sevilla in Spain, thus creating then the Rumba Flamenca. A very lively type of music, not so complicated and ideal to be danced in groups. Its big representatives are The Gipsy Kings, Paco de Lucia, and Paco Pena.
Circa 1930, the cuban Son is named Rumbe in the United States, by the promotion of Xavier Cugat, and Rumba becomes a dance to be enjoyed in the ballrooms. Nowadays, it still keeps its old style of having the woman lure the man with her charms as a sign of subtle power. The game of seduction is played amongst the dancers. The sensual movements are evident, showing the power man have over woman.
Circa 1940, in Barcelona, Spain, the rumba catalana is born, a version of rumba flamenca, it includes the technic called ventilador, which is the use of the guitar as an element of percussion.
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