in rumba, especially the best known exale rumba guaguanco you have a couple's dance. man and woman dance together in a dance that pantomimes courtship. the maattempts to get close to the won. the woman coquettishly dances arou him and avoids his efforts (translator) the woman that's dancing moves this waynd that. she covers herself so that she doesn't get impregnated. (averill) in rumba, you have a clave. the clave pattern is the key to the rhythmic structure of the ensemble. in rumba guaguanco the clave sounds like this: [claps] the first side, if you divide this pattern in half, has three beats. and the second half has two beats. and this is an asymmetric pattern and its asymmetry is critical to the sound of the entire ensemble. the musicians have to take this key and relate their drumbeats to this fundamental pattern that structures the entire musical ensemble. african musics and afro-caribbean musics have had a profound influence on pop musics throughout the world... notably in the development of the rhythm section. african-american musicians, who were marching in