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• n  syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba
• n  a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
• n  a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance
• v  dance the rhumba

• Guided by Tubman and his daughter Coocoo, they marched, then switched to a rumba, a quick step, the Lindy hop, a quadrille.
• The tune that seems likely to prove most durable is Panama Hattie's response, in rumba rhythm, to temporary disappointment in love: "Make it another oldfashioned, please .
• In Giro's, a plushy nightspot in Mexico City, the band beat out a rumba rhythm.

• rhumba

News & Articles

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• Staff pick: Dawes is the latest roots-rock band to graduate from Rumba to Bluestone
  Rumba Cafe is the place most upstart roots-rockers perform when they blow through Columbus (like tumbleweeds, obviously). The tiny Summit Street bar breeds loyalty, so even when bands outgrow the space, they keep coming back. Fortunately, a partnership with The Bluestone means Rumba can keep reeling in acts like Justin Townes Earle and Lucero even when stuffing them inside Rumba becomes a fire ...
  June 12, 2013 - Columbus Alive
• Congo orchestra born on mean streets finds royal favor
  By Jonny Hogg KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's sweltering riverside capital is more accustomed to the pulsating rhythms of some of Africa's most famous Soukous and Rumba musicians than the more genteel strains of Italian classical composer Guiseppe Verdi. But a strange musical oddity - a symphony orchestra of self-taught musicians, some of whom had to make their own instruments - is becoming one of ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Congo orchestra born on mean streets finds royal favour
  By Jonny Hogg KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's sweltering riverside capital is more accustomed to the pulsating rhythms of some of Africa's most famous Soukous and Rumba musicians than the more genteel strains of Italian classical composer Guiseppe Verdi. But a strange musical oddity - a symphony orchestra of self-taught musicians, some of whom had to make their own instruments - is becoming one of ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Tanith Belbin in Detroit Free Press
  The first time we did the rumba this season was at the Cup of China and we did our worst compulsory dance performance there,Belbin said.
• Alicia Alonso in Prince George Citizen
  Then, they thought a Caribbean native could only do the rumba,Alonso says. "I broke with that to become the first ballerina of classical ballet in Cuba."
• Carrie Ann Inaba in Daily Mail
  Inaba said: "That's the Rumba I've been waiting to see."