Spain Traditional Music : Catalan Rumba

Catalan Rumba is a style of rumba created reated by Barcelonan gypsies in the late 1950s, is similar to flamenco but not technically part of the flamenco canon. As its name indicates, the Catalan rumba originated in Catalonia, especially Barcelona. This port city of musicians had access to all sorts of new imports are not yet available to their colleagues in Madrid or in the interior. When the rumba and other Afro-Cuban styles came from Cuba in the 19th and 20th centuries, Catalan artists format adapted to flamenco format(drag the Cuban cajon, or "rumba box" in the case) made it their own. Although often dismissed by by aficionados "counterfeit" as "fake" flamenco, rumba flamenco remains popular to this day. Sevillanas are more closely related to to flamenco, Sevillanas are even more intimately related to flamenco, and most flamenco performers have at least one classic sevilliana in their repertoire. The style originated as a Medieval Castilian folk dance, called the seguidilla, which was slowly "flamencoized" during the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, the lively couples dance is popular in most parts of Spain, but most often associated with the city of Sevilla's famous Easter feria.