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The Lindy Hop is a dance that began in Harlem, New York City, in the 1920s and 1930s and evolved with the jazz music of that era. It was also popular during the Swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy hop was a fusion of a number of dances that preceded it and/or were popular during its ...

The modern international style of dancing the rumba grew out of studies made by dance teacher Monsieur Pierre (Pierre Zurcher-Margolle), who partnered Doris Lavelle. Pierre, then from London, visited Cuba in 1947, 1951 and 1953 to find out how and what Cubans were dancing at the time. The International Ballroom Rumba is a slower dance of about 120 beats per ...

Early American Rumba was made famous by a song called the Peanut Vendor which was the first recording of Cuban music to become an international hit. Interestingly, it was incorrectly described on the album label as a rumba, supposedly because the word son would not be understood in English. The name stuck, and a rumba craze developed throughout the 1930s. ...

Rumba is a dance term with several quite different meanings. The first meaning for “Rumba” is used as the short name for Afro-Cuban rumba. Afro- Cuban Rumba is a collection of dances related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most well-known and popular Afro-Cuban rumba is the Guaguancó. The other Afro-Cuban rumbas are Yambu and Colombia. The other ...