[10] On an international level bomba was fused with various national and regional musical genres creating a hybridization of bomba. Up until the 1940s and 1950s, Bomba was heavily racialized and associated as premodern and Black. On the Island of Puerto Rico however, bomba did not unfold in the same manner, it remained true to its folk tradition and geographically confined to parts of the island where there was a majority of Black Puerto Ricans in towns such as, Loiza, Ponce, Mayagüez, and Guayama. Plena. Also, Puerto Rican migrants have brought the tradition to some parts of the US mainland. The leather that is used is goat. https://www.tmz.com/.../justin-bieber-j-balvin-dances-la-bomba-music-video
", Puerto Rico/Did you know-Puerto Rico? Today there are many groups playing Bomba both as a traditional style and as a fusion with some other style. Yubá derivatives are Leró (rhythm mostly played in southern Puerto Rico) and Mariandá. Its origins can be traced back to Africa via the middle passage and the use of African slave labor during the country's colonial period. Known for its dancing, its call-and-response energy, and the dynamic of two types of drums, bomba has become central to Puerto Rico’s story. Tito Matos, leader of the Puerto Rican group Viento de Agua, describes plena as "the newspaper of the people." You can hear the difference in these songs.
The traditional drums used in bomba are called barriles, since they have long been built from the wood of barrels. Puerto Rican composer Roberto Angleró wrote and sang "Si Dios fuera negro" ("If God Was Black"), a huge hit in Puerto Rico, Peru and Colombia during the early 1980s. "A challenge for Puerto Rican music: How to build a soberao for Bomba.
'Bomba' Best Zumba Dance By Nevena & Goran 720p HD - YouTube This song has a traditional sound of bomba, even though it incorporates other instruments such as the piano, which is more typical to the US. Bomba had been a marginalized music genre until musical artists like Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera from the group Cortijo y su Combo, popularized bomba by taking it to various parts of the Americas and the world. Brothers Emmanuelli Náter (José, Jorge and Victor, students and friends of the Cepeda) with their Center for Cultural Research of Eternal Roots (Centro de Investigación Cultural Raíces Eternas) (CICRE in Spanish) created in Puerto Rico during the 90 so-called "Bombazos". Bomba is both a traditional dance and musical style of Puerto Rico.
Bomba was developed in Puerto Rico some time after the trans-Atlantic African Slave trade in 1501. Known as the dance of slaves, this dance was usually performed on sugar planatations.