Rhumba (Rumba)

Rhumba (Rumba) The rhumba craze hit the United States in the early 1930s, and popular music and dance have never been the same. The rhumba (or rumba) is an Americanized, ballroom-style adaption of the Cuban son that bears little relation to the Afro-Cuban rumba. Although Latin American music had been heard in the United States during the tango craze of the World War I era, it was not until the 1920s that American bandleaders who played gigs in hotel and casino ballrooms in Havana returned with…