(1) Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance often found in salsa and Latin jazz. (2) The name of the drums (similar to the conga drum) used in it.
A folkloric form from Puerto Rico. The four beat pattern is played on squat drums called bombas with accent on beat four. Can be considered to have a clave equivalent pattern called cuá.
a music genre for dance unique to Puerto Rico but with roots in Africa; also a barrel-shaped drum of Afro-Puerto Rican origin, similar to but shorter than the Cuban tumbadora ( conga drum). See complete description on the bomba page.
( Baum ba) is a popular and social music and dance from Puerto Rico. Traditional instrumentation includes short barrel like drums (called Bombas) and sticks. The rhythm has been added into the standard Salsa repertoire and expanded and developed by such artists as Kako and Cortillo. One of the most famous groups playing folkloric Bomba is Los Hermanos Cepeda. Bomba is sung in Spanish.
Large drum used in Puerto Rico. Name of an African dance and song.
a style of Puerto Rican folk music derived primarily from African music and dominated by percussion instruments as well as call and response vocals cacce: a type of 14th century Italian music in which a lively text is presented in two-voice canon form
A barrel-shaped drum of Afro-Puerto Rican origin, similar to the Cuban tumbadora ( conga drum ), although shorter; 2. A style of Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance which is also commonly found in salsa repertoires.
Orginally a Puerto Rican three-drum dance form of marked west-central African ancestry, the bomba is especially associated with the Puerto Rican Village of Loiza Aldea. In its old form it is still played there at the festival of Santiago, and New York Puerto Rican folk revival companies also perform it from time to time. Even in the dance band form introduced by Rafael Cortijo in the late 1950s, the bomba's melodies, as well as rhythmic pulse, are strongly African.
Afro-Puerto Rican dance and musical genre that originated in coastal regions in the 18th century.
African-derived music and dance of coastal regions of Puerto Rico.
Bomba is an African derived musical form from the Chota Rivera area of Ecuador. Its origins can be traced back to Africa via the middle passage and the use of African slave labor during the country's colonial period. Africans brought to labor as slaves in Ecuador brought with them this music form heavily influenced from the Bantu cultures of the Congo.