Bomba is a traditional dance and music genre of Puerto Rico, one of the oldest forms within the island’s Afro–Puerto Rican musical tradition. Bomba unfolds as a call-and-response between a dancer and the lead drummer, in which the dancer leads and the drummer follows. Performers form a circle, called a batey, that includes drummers, a cuá percussionist, a maraca player, and singers. It is a vehicle for Afro–Puerto Rican history, identity, and political resistance.
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