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Pelicula de Golpe de Bomba - Ponce, P.R.

Eh mama, eh papa - Â¡Golpe tuyo calindÃ¡!

I`m currently re-organizing and re-working my page here, so please - bear with me...

My name is Anton... I'm 26, and I hail from the mighty Humboldt Park - or, rather, from the Humboldt Park that was, and I feel more and more estranged by the glittery new Humboldt Park of privilege and displacement that is turning my world upside down before my very eyes, if ya`ll follow me... I`m an optician by trade, and a musican by profession... For over 2 years I`ve been honored to be a percussionist in Chicago`s oldest and deepest music and dance ensemble dedicated to interpreting and promoting traditional Afro-Puerto Rican musical culture - Grupo Yuba , exposing the world around us to the rich heritage of Bomba y Plena for over 15 years now... We reached a milestone in April of 2005 with the release of our CD - "Chicago Sabe a Bomba y Plena con Grupo Yuba" - one of a short list of modern recordings of traditional Afro-Puerto Rican music currently available anywhere, and the first such recording from a Chicago based group... For ordering info, please email: [email protected] We are a project of, and are based in El Centro Cultural Segundo Ruiz Belvis , which has been serving the cultural and educational needs of the Puerto Rican (and wider...) community here in Chicago for three decades. We give workshops and classes in Bomba percussion, dance, and singing, for interested people of all ages and levels of experience. And, we are available to be booked for events and performances of all sorts, of course...I also play guitar, bass, run a small recording studio, and rap, so... I guess I keep myself pretty busy.I welcome any and all notes from interesting and intelligent people. Hit me up ya`ll...

Bomba de torniquete - Bomba drum with torniquette style tension... Bomba de cunya - Bomba drum with struck peg style tension... Antiguo baile de bomba - Arroyo, P.R.

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Member Since: 12/31/2005
Band Website: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/GRUPOYUBA
Influences: Bomba is a complex of song, dance, and drum-based rythmic forms that have developed over the centuries as a product of the experience of people of African descent in Puerto Rico. It has survived as a living cultural expression in a number of the islands coastal communities, where sugar plantations once thrived and where people of African descent remain heavily concentrated. From the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, up until 1873, slavery was an essential and defining characteristic of Puerto Rican society. The peak period of slave labor and slave traffic occurred from the late 18th up till the mid-19th centuries. Before this period, the island had remained relatively undeveloped and isolated, but as Spain began to turn more attention to stimulating economic and demographic growth in what had been a backward military outpost, the islands flat, arable coastal plains began to fill with sugar cane plantations. Read More
Sounds Like: Not actually a rhythm or rhythmic style in itself, the term bomba encompasses a number of historically linked drum-based dance and song forms, which developed over the centuries in various coastal Puerto Rican communities of particularly marked African heritage. They share the same basic organizational principles, and variations on the same instrumentation. Bomba music as it stands today embodies creolized aesthetic concepts derived from various African and Afro-american cultures, along with influences and structures from European forms as well. Read More
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An Overview of Bomba

Not actually a rhythm or rhythmic style in itself, the term bomba encompasses a number of historically linked drum-based dance and song forms, which developed over the centuries in various coastal Pue...
Posted by Oneleven on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:44:00 PST

A Brief Look at the Historical Background and Development of Puerto Rican Bomba.

Bomba is a complex of song, dance, and drum-based rythmic forms that have developed over the centuries as a product of the experience of people of African descent in Puerto Rico. It has survived as a...
Posted by Oneleven on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:31:00 PST