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Word: rumbas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cafe on the Road to Calais" and "Beautiful Love" (Victor)?Ohman & Arden, the Gershwin piano-specialists, prove themselves with a hot Cuban rumba and a conventional waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Mama Inez" and "Muchacha" (Brunswick)?Vincent Lopez makes the best Cuban rumba records. Honors go to his percussives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cuban Invasion | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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