I knew Flamenco Rumba, but what about Rumba in the Americas? For an exploration of the many branches of the Rumba tree, starting not at the Cuban root, but on the Flamenco branch, Click here. It is strange how songs dealing with tragic and heart-wrenching emotions can be so popular.
You would think people might wish to avoid such feelings, and shun such stark reminders of emotional trauma... but no! "Bring it on!" they cry, "Make me feel another's pain, re-open my wounds, remind me of my losses, drive me to tears!" Fetch your hanky and then CLICK HERE for a short meditation on the subject and a personal set of examples. Click here for my story of a bit of detective work prompted by a YouTube video which sounded like this record, but was named as a different one.
Stop Press! Updated 02/10/15 with newly-discovered YouTube video of this record's source.
Click here for a few words on the existence
of a centuries-long unbroken chain of culture not participated in, and hardly remembered by adults, which thrives mostly unremarked and unrecorded, amongst children.
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