Word: danzon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went into Cuba's interior and studied the primitive rumba dance, a series of writhings and twistings too lewd for fastidious eyes. A modified version of the rumba, the danzon, is the craze in Havana, a potential craze in the U. S. It has easy, lazy steps and, in its authentic form, an interim of a minute or so when the tempo changes and dancers stop for conversation or for the lady to sway...
Cuba's danzon tune of the minute is Suavecito. Suave excerpt...
Born in Santa Clara province, Sr. Machado fought in the Cuban War of Independence, rose to the rank of brigadier general-as did many another-but when peace came he left the army, went into business. At this time he danced the danzon at least as well as Edward of Wales tangoes today, was in fact, a noted cavalier...