rhumba

Rhumba, also known as ballroom rumba, is a genre of ballroom music and dance that appeared in the East Coast of the United States during the 1930s. It combined American big band 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 from Cuban rumba in both its music and its dance. Hence, some authors prefer the Americanized spelling of the word (rhumba) to distinguish between them.¶

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ballroom rumba”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶

rhumba is dance that appeared in the East Coast of the United States during the 1930s, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

The source record links this tradition to 22 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.¹¶