Editing Rhumba (section)

{{Short description|Style of ballroom dance}}
{{About|the ballroom dance|other musical styles|Rumba}}
{{Infobox music genre
| name              = Rhumba
| stylistic_origins = [[Son cubano]], American ballroom music
| cultural_origins  = [[East Coast of the United States]], early 1930s
| instruments       = Vocals, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, guitar, piano, violin, bass, maracas, congas, bongos, timbales, drums
| subgenres         = Ballroom conga
| derivatives       =
| regional_scenes   = [[New York City]]
}}
'''Rhumba''', also known as '''ballroom rumba''', is a genre of ballroom music and [[ballroom dance|dance]] that appeared in the [[East Coast of the United States]] during the 1930s. It combined American [[big band]] music with Afro-Cuban rhythms, primarily the [[son cubano]], but also [[conga (music)|conga]] and [[Cuban rumba|rumba]]. Although taking its name from the latter, ballroom rumba differs completely from Cuban rumba in both its music and its dance. Hence, authors prefer the Americanized spelling of the word (''rhumba'') to distinguish between them.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Drake-Boyt|first1=Elizabeth|title=Latin Dance|date=2011|publisher=Greenwood|location=Santa Barbara, CA|pages=43–46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UqFT_ziylIsC|chapter=Rhumba|isbn=9780313376092}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Daniel|first1=Yvonne|editor1-last=Malnig|editor1-first=Julie|title=Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader|date=2009|publisher=University of Illinois|location=Chicago, IL|page=162|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCSDBjRqC5EC|chapter=Rumba Then and Now|isbn=9780252075650}}</ref><ref name="Hess">{{cite book|last1=Hess|first1=Carol A.|title=Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York, NY|pages=115–116, 200|isbn=9780199339891|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQqxAAAAQBAJ}}</ref>