Cubano

A LITTLE HISTORY OF CUBAN RUMBA.

The Cuban Rumba came to exist at the time of the Spanish colonialism. Cuban Rumba is one of the most famous music in the Isle, which extends to other nations. Its main protagonists were blacks slaves and their descendants, from different ethnic African as Lucumi, bargain, plow and perhaps most significant of all the Bantu.

Cuban rumba are associated with festivity, where not only dancing and singing, but probably food and alcoholic beverages. initially were no musical instruments like today equipments in Cuban rumba was available, the performers were accompanied simply by any beat tone that were mixed using a modest drum sounds primitive crafted,
this kind of instrument touches emphasize the rhythm of the Cuban Rumba music and often in the best part of the party the instruments were expropriate by the law enforcement.

The Cuban Rumba was characteristically an Afro-Cuban folkloric popular dance that looks like a virility dance. The Cuban Rumba regularly danced in taverns, bars and almost everywhere. started to be well known in the early years of the twentieth century. The Cuban Rumba is the term for dance moves and music melodies that have been present in the historic history of Cuba,

The sugar cane plantations in Havana and Matanzas were the main centers of expansion of the Cuban Rumba.
The features of this dancing movements are fascinating the dancing figures usually complicated, are hip and pelvis moves founded over the African tradition. In Cuban music, rumba is a style including dance, percussion, and song.

Cuban Rumba worked as a expression to people who were mistreated, thus beginning an ethnic and civil identification with Cuban rumba. The Cuban Rumba itself is a combination of music, dance, and poetry.

In the course of slavery, and once it was basically abolished, Cuban rumba worked as a social communication for the very low social status that was typically danced in the streets or patio in urban regions. Cuban Rumba is believed to have expanded in Havana due to the fact it was the area whit more number of African slave by the end of the eighteenth century. insurrection was challenging and dangerous, but demonstration in a disguised form was often expressed in recreational music and dance.

Cuban Rumba

Cuban Rumba is famous for its sensual movements.
There are three main varieties of Cuban Rumba, YAMBU, GUAGUANCO, and COLUMBIA.
Cuban Rumba is an combination of many African dance, bundled with Spanish influences.
People in Havana and Matanzas originally used the word rumba as a equivalent for party.
Rumba stopped to be basically another word for party and now is meaning both the Cuban musical genre and also as a very form of dance.

STYLES OF CUBAN RUMBA

Guaguanco from (Havana)

Columbia, from(Matanzas)

Yambu from(Matanzas)

YAMBU
urban origins and seems to be one of the older varieties considering there are references to the same since the mid-nineteenth century. The dance begins using a lalaleo chanted (repeated syllables clarion way) known as Diana. The choir responds back utilizing lalaleo quirky, while switching single and chorus part until the dancers begins whit a number of dances movements. Dancing is smooth, courteous moves. Representing seduction from female to male, and is characterized as Vacunao (sensual pelvic movement). Also notable is the truth that in the Yambu splendor with women, dancer delegate to a secondary place in the dance.

COLUMBIA:
Columbia is a fast and energetic Cuban rumba, in a triple-pulse framework, and often supported the standard bell pattern struck on a guataca (‘hoe blade’) or even a metal bell. Columbia originated in the hamlets, plantations, where men worked together.
The Cuban rumba style of Columbia originated the drum patterns and chorus of song of spiritual Cuban Abakua lifestyle. The drum patterns from the minor conga drum is essentially same in the two Columbia and abakua.
The cadenced style of the abakua head drum bonko is very similar, and in some cases, identical to Columbia quinto

In the dance Individuals compete with other men to display their ability, strength, confidence and in many cases good sense of humor. Some of these previously mentioned features of Cuban rumba style of Columbia are derived from a colonial Cuban martial art/dance which shares similarities to Brazilian Capoeira. Columbia incorporates several movements derived the Abakua and Congo dances, combined with Spanish flamenco, and contemporary movement of the dance often incorporate break dancing and hip hop variations. In recent years, women are also starting to dance Columbia.

GUAGUANCO

The expression guaguanco formerly referred to a narrative song style which emerged from the coros de claves of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries.
Guaguanco is a partners dance of sexual contest between the man and the woman. The male systematically tries to capture his partner with a single pushed of his pelvis. This sensual movement is called the vacunao (erotic pelvic movement) and is denoting sexual penetration. The vacunao can also be expressed with a sudden gesture made by the hand or foot. Positioning onto of her dress while attractively moving her figure in contrary motion, the woman move her skirt in rhythmical tempo with the music. The male attempts to confuse the female with fancy steps, The female reacts by quickly turning away, carrying the edges of her dresses at the same time, or protecting her groin region with her hand (botao),

Cuban rumba originate from the western part of Cuba, especially Havana and Matanzas are famous for their rumba. Other communities and small towns are well recognized for their varieties of Cuban rumba. This grow in the West seemed to be generated by the high concentration of the sugar industry in this area of Cuba, and the resulting quantity of the Cuban population there,
but {through the course of the years the Cuban rumba was growing on to other regions of the island, and after this is known throughout Cuba and even all over the world.

The Cuban rumba had a contagious rhythm that is impossiblee not to move when their are performing if you have the chance of being on one of this Guateques (party) even for a no dancer your body begins to moves with the rhythms of the claves and bongos..