page_title: Galician rumba
section_title: Origin
hierarchical_section_title: Galician rumba / Origin
caption_attribution_description: Español: Vilanova dos Infantes, Celanova, Ourense, Galicia. Romería Etnográfica Raigame. 17 de Mayo de 2008. Galego: Romaría Etnográfica Raigame, Vilanova dos Infantes, Celanova, Ourense, Galiza. 17 de maio de 2008.
context_page_description: Galician rumba belongs to those songs and dances called cantes de ida y vuelta, "of departure and return", like the Habanera, that travelled back from Cuba to the Spanish motherland to establish themselves as musical genres cultivated and cherished by the Spanish population.
  Like the rumba flamenca, the Galician rumba originated from a fusion of certain Cuban and Spanish elements of style. The characteristics of that new genre are similar to those of the new song-dances that appeared in the Caribbean Basin area during the 19th century, which were the result of a combination of Iberian and African elements. This new musical style has been called by Armando Rodríguez Ruidíaz the Rumba prototype and defined as follows: “That original product, which we can call the Rumba prototype, was the result of a process of cultural fusion, in which certain European components, such as the lyrics, the tonal relationships, the melodic and harmonic structures and the “quatrain-refrain” form, were combined with syncopated rhythmic patterns and micro-metric fluctuations of African origin.”
context_section_description: According to Miguel Pérez Lorenzo, there are testimonies about the inclusion of the “Rumba” in the Galician bagpipe’s (gaita) repertoire since the 19th century. He also says in reference to the bagpiper from Ourense, Xoán Ferreiro: “He played, we imagine, those pieces that he heard from his father, other bagpipers, and the band… Jerónimo (father of this bagpiper, who passed away in 1940) emigrated to Cuba, where he lived until five years before his death… those years in Cuba served him to include “rumbas and “boleros” in his repertoire… which now Don Xoán plays. With the exception of the processional pieces that Don Xoán used to play; sometime in the mass and other times walking behind the “Saint” in the procession, the rest was mainly for the people to dance in the fests and romerías.
caption: Galician bagpipers gaiteiros in a romería.
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