Various Artists
Rumberos - La Rumba Es Lo Más Sublime Para El Alma Divertir - DVD
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DVD
(Sara Records 1010),
Released 2006;
Editor's Pick:
Here's an informative and fun to watch documentary about the history and sociology of the Cuban rumba. With many performances and interviews with musicians and others who "live" the rumba. How the rumba developed in Havana and Matanzas as a spontaneous artistic form of expression is discussed in detail with the likes of percussionist Alfredo Hernández, musicologist Bladimir Zamora, drum-maker Juan Bencomo, singer Mayito Rivera, anthropologist Lazara Menendez, rumberos Pedro Fariñas and Eloy Machado and many others. Lots of street rumbas are filmed here. The differences between the three main types of rumba — El Yambú, El Guaguancó, and La Columbia — are covered here as well. With special bonus footage of extended rumbas: Rumba En Centro Habana, Rumba En El Callejon de Hammel, Rumba En La Peña de "El Ambia."
In Spanish, offered with English subtitles. Approx. 100 minutes.
Highly Recommended. (BP, 2007-02-19)
Description:
The Rumba is a popular Cuban dance, originating in the humbler sectors of La Havana and Matanzas society in the late 19th century.
Solares (houses built around a cental patio), the port, the bars, the corners, in short, the street, were where rumba grew and developed. Rumba was born to spice up idle moments, an informal party held almost anywhere: rooms, alley, patios. Rumba instruments usually consist of three barrel drums: the quinto, the salior and the tres-dos, the rhythm being underpinned by the clave and the cata. A solo singer and a chorus. The clave consists of two sticks of wood playing a 2-3 beat, while the cata is usually a hollow piece of bamboo drummed with two sticks. The clave and the cata carry the rhythm and tempo of the music.
Rumba is also normally played with 3 wooden boxes, originally whatever came to hand: drawers, salt fish boxes, stools, spoons, etc.
Rumba consists of three subgenres: Yambu, Columbia and Guaguanco.
At present, the rumba lives on as an important folkloric element of Cuban music, summarizing its African heritage. However, its importance on the contemporary music scene resides in the fact that many of its musical elements and dance routines have been adopted by salsa and son groups, who have made it a part of popular world music, allowing us to enjoy the rhythmic wealth of this Afro-Cuban genre.
Category: Dvd
=> Folkloric
=> Cuba
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