Cuban Jimba Essay

In this article, “Changing Values in Cuban Rumba, A Lower Class Black Dance Appropriated by the Cuban Revolution,” by Yvonne Payne Daniel, quotes “To say, ‘We're all the same’ or ‘There is no racism in Cuba,’ is to mask difference and potentially to permit prejudice and discrimination to fester. Rumba illuminates the problems of the state in its attempt to link respect and prestige among all Cubans. Rumba performance, visually affirms the persistent reality of its origins in the nineteenth century and the present unresolved situation” (Daniel). In other words, the dance, Rumba, represents the reality that there are racism and segregation and enlightens the true nature of the corrupt state leading to sufferings and hardships towards the victimized community- mostly dark-skinned Cubans. Daniel’s statement is eligible to be correct, because according to the article, Rumba has its own form of dance that promotes some form of freedom and revealing the ideology equality while show the reality of segregation in Cuba from different types of dance move. Mentioning different dance forms, in the passage, it discuses about three diverse types of rhythm in Rumba which they are: Rumba Yambú, Rumba Guaguancó, and Rumba Colombia. Each type basically represents the feel and its tempo movement of the dance with some diverse cultures mixed in. The first one is Yambú which is the oldest known style of rumba and also the slowest. The dance is slower, yet hasty than the Guaguancó. Dancers …show more content…
The passage explains and hints the history of Cuba that in some form of government and society has of a light weighted apartheid or segregation between the white and the black which stands as an issue in a political environment. As a Cuban culture, Rumba reminds as a history to every young and old Cuban; that they should not be segregated again, but to stay united in cultural and national as one country of