Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

A woman in a long, flowing red skirt, blurry with motion, dances in front of a line of people seated and playing barrel-shaped drums. Palm trees sway in the background.

The Sound of Resistance in Puerto Rican Bomba Connects La Perla Community

First documented in the seventeenth century, Caribbean bomba emerged in the context of colonialism.

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