The complex history of Puerto Rico’s music — from bomba and plena to son and salsa and beyond, expanding to hundreds of genres, and the web of interconnections among them — is laid out in the Museo de ...

Bomba is a musical tradition developed by West Africans along the coast of Puerto Rico dating back to the 17th Century. ... a volunteer for the Loiza delegation.

Loiza is a short distance from the capital city of San Juan and east of the government center, ... The high-energy and rhythmic Plena genre originated in Loiza, along with the drum-heavy Bomba music.

Loiza’s is the one I teach most, it is the fastest rhythm of the bomba and it’s called ’Seis Corrido.’ Its rhythm is the most flirtatious, the most expressive, and the fastest when dancing.

At the vigil, Bomba musicians beat their drums. Plena Combativa, a feminist plenera group, ... A woman at the vigil in Loiza dances bomba on June 1. Courtesy of Revista Étnica ...

In Loiza, Afro Casa is the epicenter of Afro-Puerto Rican art. A massive mosaic mural of one of my literary heroes, Arturo Schomberg, is hard to miss. Its style is reminiscent of murals that ...

It’s a gesture that says the bomba has begun. Lifestyles SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Drummers beat the goatskin covers of rum barrels while a singer led a chorus in call and response.

Loiza is a short distance from the capital city of San Juan and east of the government center, ... The high-energy and rhythmic Plena genre originated in Loiza, along with the drum-heavy Bomba music.

Loiza is a short distance from the capital city of San Juan and east of the government center, ... The high-energy and rhythmic Plena genre originated in Loiza, along with the drum-heavy Bomba music.

Loiza is a short distance from the capital city of San Juan and east of the government center, ... The high-energy and rhythmic Plena genre originated in Loiza, along with the drum-heavy Bomba music.