Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.In some contexts rumba is used as shorthand for Afro-Cuban rumba a group of dances related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most common Afro-Cuban rumba is the guaguancó. The other Afro-Cuban rumbas are Yambu and Colombia.In other contexts rumba refers to ballroom-rumba one of the ballroom dances which occurs in social dance and in international competitions.
