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Pages: 212
Authors: Yvonne Daniel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Using dance anthropology to illuminate the values and attitudes embodied in rumba, Yvonne Daniel explores the surprising relationship between dance and the prof
Rumba on the River
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Gary Stewart
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-17 - Publisher: Verso

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Captivating study of the flowering of Congo music, during the fight to consolidate their hard-won independence.
Rumba Rules
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Bob W. White
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-27 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying “happy are those who sing and dance,” and
Rumba Under Fire
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Irina Dumitrescu
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: punctum books

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A professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflec
Writing Rumba
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Miguel Arnedo-Gómez
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1