Word: rumbas
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...lange that spans infectious Afro-pop, bluesy grooves, hip-hop and a mosaic of traditional genres. That mix is best encountered at La Refuge, tel: (223) 223 3799. It has no street address, so taxi drivers might have trouble finding it. Listen out for the chocolate-smooth Cuban rumba drifting out from the rutted lanes, a stone's throw from the Rue N'Tomicorobougou. At La Refuge, in a courtyard lit by a lone fluorescent strip, middle-aged couples dance beneath a huge Sahelian moon. Neighborhood goats wander past. And a Malian band, replete with tom-tom, lilting flute...
With a film about tattooing, renditions of traditional Scottish fiddle tunes and a rumba performed by ballroom dancers, Harvard artists displayed their diverse talents before a packed Sanders Theater audience on Saturday night...
Salsa and Merengue, Social Latin—Cha-cha and Rumba, and Waltz and Tango are the other three classes being offered. They all take place weekly at Lowell Lecture Hall, where anyone—even those not affiliated with Harvard—may pay a $30 to join for the summer...
...circled the globe during the mid-1990s. Why did it take so long to get a foothold in Cuba, the richly musical culture that gave the world rumba and mambo? "Hip-hop everywhere else has one reality. We have another," explains Ariel Fernandez, 24, a DJ, organizer of Alamar's annual summer rap festival and a central figure in Havana hip-hop. Fernandez couldn't be more right: Cuba's record industry is entirely government run, from the recording studios to the record stores. Which means that raperos, like bus drivers, hotel clerks and doctors and lawyers, work...
...whom Frischmann describes as "the most punk rock of the lot of us," quit the group during the Lollapalooza tour in '95. There were legal hassles. The publishers of the new-wave band Wire claimed the riff in Connection was lifted from Wire's late-'70s song Three Girl Rumba and threatened a lawsuit (the affair was settled out of court). And there were the usual rock woes. Rumors spread that Frischmann was addicted to heroin and that Albarn was jealous because his girlfriend's band was having more success than...