How Bomba became the sound of resistance in Puerto Rico

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  • Опубликовано: 14 май 2023
  • Bomba, a traditional dance and music style in Puerto Rico, emerged around the 16th century, mixing sounds brought by enslaved Africans with those of Indigenous Taíno. “It’s a fingerprint of Puerto Rico,” John Leguizamo says.
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    How Bomba became the sound of resistance in Puerto Rico
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Комментарии • 125

  • @levlowell
    @levlowell 2 месяца назад +4

    That little girl at the end brought the biggest smile. I could hear my grandmothers voice saying
    jump Chula jump 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

  • @jah-jah87
    @jah-jah87 11 месяцев назад +12

    Thank you for showing the beauty in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

  • @jo9367
    @jo9367 10 месяцев назад +14

    I just love my culture, although I was born and raised in Buffalo New York I used to always talk to my grandmother she was telling me about the culture, now my grandmother is from Spain she moved to Puerto Rico at a young age and quickly adjusted to the culture I love you and miss you and thank you for all the wonderful stories of Puerto Rico

    • @KalEl1358
      @KalEl1358 10 месяцев назад

      Well so sad to tell you that we are a disappearing culture since wealthy white Yankees are gentrifying and displacing Puerto Rican families out of Puerto Rico so they can stay with our paradise.

  • @louissantos9088
    @louissantos9088 Год назад +9

    thank you john for showing the beautiful of la bomba and the beauty of Puerto Rico 🙌🙌🙌💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

  • @Yahaira10472
    @Yahaira10472 Год назад +9

    This makes me so happy - so much history of our people that others don’t know. It’s time 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷❤

  • @ZepolWorkzGarage
    @ZepolWorkzGarage Год назад +9

    I thought I knew alot about my culture but keep showing me more. I didn't know the flag had changed blues and Bomba beats amazing. 🙏👍🔥🇵🇷

  • @t.r.campbell6585
    @t.r.campbell6585 Год назад +26

    Puerto Rico is a great place, a beautiful island and a wonderful getaway during February.

    • @KalEl1358
      @KalEl1358 10 месяцев назад

      And also, the wealthy white Yankees are gentrifying us and displacing us to steal our paradise. The samething they did with native Hawaiians. The US only invades to steal from other countries to maintain their economy.

    • @rhonin420
      @rhonin420 5 месяцев назад

      January thru December...

  • @teresalegler2777
    @teresalegler2777 Год назад +6

    Love it! Thanks for this lesson. Now let’s start the dancing.

  • @adalbeltorivera5620
    @adalbeltorivera5620 Год назад +5

    Mr Cepeda he was my teacher of bomba and plena the best 🇵🇷

    • @nannettebrill5390
      @nannettebrill5390 9 месяцев назад

      Yep! A liar. He had to dig dió into his own Colombian culture to learn about his heritage. Still annoying of him pretending to be a Puerto Rican.

  • @ilianavazquez8635
    @ilianavazquez8635 7 месяцев назад +2

    Me encanta mucho ver esto. Bendiciones!!

  • @SylvetteTravels
    @SylvetteTravels Год назад +4

    I love Bomba y Plena from Loíza I use to go to Copi at night to be part of this culture. ❤🇵🇷

  • @JustRaine97
    @JustRaine97 Год назад +12

    Love this. Such a beautiful place.

  • @iamwordlife1
    @iamwordlife1 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love my culture and to be able to learn more about it thru videos like this is a blessing 🇵🇷🙏🏼

  • @nellie...
    @nellie... Год назад +3

    Appreciate this documentary...

  • @maddie9185
    @maddie9185 Год назад +4

    That was beautiful

  • @skillet6870
    @skillet6870 3 месяца назад +1

    Latin Music forms Son, Salsa, Samba, Merengue, Bachata, Rumba, Mambo, Cumbia, Champeta, BOMBA-PLENA, Soukas-Sebene, Cha Cha Cha, Tango, Pachanga, Tropicalia, Zouk, Carioca Timba, Tropicalia, and of course Reggaeton--all enjoy well documented African roots coupled with undeniable African influence---whether directly or indirectly.
    Facts that most latinos and hispanics continue to downplay, deny and avoid.

  • @amgooder
    @amgooder 9 месяцев назад +6

    Leguizamo use to say he was 🇵🇷until his father ratted him out😁 by saying he is Colombian...and doesn't understand why he says he's PRican all the time.
    Puerto Ricans love ya anyway✌️

    • @pa.encema2821
      @pa.encema2821 5 месяцев назад +1

      I think he lied about his age as well. Still like him anyways

  • @21bebaescandon
    @21bebaescandon Год назад +2

    Gracias ❤🇵🇷

  • @accessdenied9105
    @accessdenied9105 8 месяцев назад +4

    This who we are and any government that tries to dismantle our culture will always be met with resistance until what was taken from us by centuries of genocide towards our natives! ⚒️🪓🛖✊🏾💪🏾Never forget that you have been standing on stolen lands” from the North to the South☑️ Resiste BORIKEN 🙌🌞🌻

  • @s.s.secretsocietyprim2967
    @s.s.secretsocietyprim2967 Год назад +3

    Bomba Heat!!

  • @sistersincharge
    @sistersincharge 2 месяца назад

    Tears of joy

  • @dr.migueltorrezedd8651
    @dr.migueltorrezedd8651 4 месяца назад +1

    John said what the blackest dude in the video wouldn't say (he could have said "originally it was created, by the Africans who came here enslaved, but the Europeans/Spaniards and other groups, added a little twist to it decades later").

  • @MariaGTexas
    @MariaGTexas 10 месяцев назад +2

    Independence!

  • @Manuel-zo3wg
    @Manuel-zo3wg 11 месяцев назад +2

    Ms chichi Rodriguez was hilarious movie too won fue 🌶️😊. ❤️ History of our beautiful 🇵🇷🐸🏝️

  • @luzmoyet1149
    @luzmoyet1149 5 месяцев назад +1

    ❤ Bomba is taino in Africa people my family is Puerto Rican in Africa

  • @juliac.3400
    @juliac.3400 10 месяцев назад +2

    ❤❤❤

  • @chulamama4836
    @chulamama4836 Год назад +2

    Asè 🙏❤️🇵🇷

  • @ms.feliciano2903
    @ms.feliciano2903 6 месяцев назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @AnthonyGarcia-be8ib
    @AnthonyGarcia-be8ib 3 месяца назад

    For example Break dancing was waiting for the beats to come along that how rap and dj tirn Table to make music that can accomadated the street urges of music sound rhythm that recognizes us and is affiliated with our struggles and experiences

  • @ElStriker777
    @ElStriker777 Год назад +3

    👍🔥💯💪🏼

  • @joymcclendon7525
    @joymcclendon7525 Год назад +4

    BEAUTIFUL ❣️❣️❣️☮️💞

  • @angelacevedo8824
    @angelacevedo8824 Год назад +7

    is time to be free!!!

  • @amgooder
    @amgooder 9 месяцев назад +1

    🥁🥁🥁🎶🇵🇷🕺💃

  • @gladysr1003
    @gladysr1003 3 месяца назад

    ❤❤🇵🇷🇵🇷

  • @hectormanuel8360
    @hectormanuel8360 Год назад +4

    Tainos should be known to be named as "Arawak-Boricua" :D

  • @Jay92master
    @Jay92master 11 месяцев назад +1

    We want our island to have a new president in our country

    • @hippy9309
      @hippy9309 6 месяцев назад

      We need to get the white government, people, and military out and take our country back!

  • @travelingjohn69
    @travelingjohn69 11 месяцев назад +11

    Shout out to my Afro-Puerto Ricans ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

    • @jonnyboy5628
      @jonnyboy5628 10 месяцев назад +5

      ✊🏾❤

    • @limonesycafe8898
      @limonesycafe8898 8 месяцев назад +1

      You mean all Puerto Ricans who aren't recent immigrants?

    • @alexdamflion4820
      @alexdamflion4820 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@limonesycafe8898thats a loaded question lol

    • @limonesycafe8898
      @limonesycafe8898 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@alexdamflion4820 LOL I am just not pretending like the history isn't what it is, and the intermingling didn't occur.

  • @thefpvlife7785
    @thefpvlife7785 8 месяцев назад

    In Desantises world these slaves benefited by being able to play these bongos. Sad man

  • @reneekad
    @reneekad Год назад

    They know who I worked with when I was allowed to work without worried about getting harmed right?

  • @user-dt2eq8qi5y
    @user-dt2eq8qi5y Год назад +12

    Please John, bring back the Puertorrican music
    glory. Anything that erases Bad Bunny will do.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 Год назад +1

      Tito Puente revival!!!!

    • @china6518
      @china6518 Год назад

      You do know he isn't Puerto rican

    • @user-dt2eq8qi5y
      @user-dt2eq8qi5y Год назад +3

      @@china6518 Thanks for clarifying that. His appreciation for the true PR music is all I need. Somehow, people are losing their morals and it's no surprise music has too. In PR there are no borders, beaches are always open.

    • @immealldayeveryday9425
      @immealldayeveryday9425 Год назад +1

      @@china6518 yea he is Puerto Rican well mixed and he is also from Puerto Rico right from the caserio

    • @immealldayeveryday9425
      @immealldayeveryday9425 Год назад +1

      He is Puerto Rican he is mixed and he is from the caserio in Puerto Rico but he did move from the island, also reggaeton is a genre created by Puerto Ricans as well, what you don’t like about bad bunny is his lyrics which is a separate issue and yes I’m from puerto rico

  • @comacoz2438
    @comacoz2438 Год назад +4

    If only infrastructure and anti corruption became the sound of resistance, we'd be getting somewhere

  • @CarpeDiem-vd3vo
    @CarpeDiem-vd3vo 4 месяца назад +1

    Not Tainos but Boricuas from the island of Boriken. Taino was given to the indigenous by the colonizers. I am not what the colonizers gave to me. I reclaim my origins my roots and my culture.

  • @teddydavis2339
    @teddydavis2339 7 месяцев назад +5

    The Puerto Ricans embrace the music, but they reject the from whom the music came.

    • @MightyMind137
      @MightyMind137 6 месяцев назад

      explain what you mean

    • @pa.encema2821
      @pa.encema2821 5 месяцев назад

      Basically bomba is black music. PR's tend to hide their black ancestor race

    • @dr.migueltorrezedd8651
      @dr.migueltorrezedd8651 4 месяца назад

      @@MightyMind137 meaning the blackest dude in the video was scared to say it came from the Africans, and he was so quick to mention the Taino's (you have to watch how people act and what they do). John had to say what he could have. Good thing John is a New Yorker and not full of BS, like that one clown with the whatever that is on his head.

    • @justfacts993
      @justfacts993 22 дня назад

      They mean Africa….🌍

    • @Freethink_Rebel
      @Freethink_Rebel 2 дня назад

      He said that it was a mixture of Africans and taino, so I don't see where there was a denial. Take your victim mindset race baiting somewhere else.

  • @nas6587
    @nas6587 3 месяца назад

    Let the other guy speak too....

  • @elainedaprano9130
    @elainedaprano9130 Год назад +3

    Yeah, now if all this would convince Latinos to vote Democrat, that would be something. I don't see how talking about food and music actually does that. Otherwise, just an extra gig for Leguizamo...

    • @fernandgutez2383
      @fernandgutez2383 Год назад +4

      Only if RFK Jr. runs for President, otherwise it would be a waste of votes. Also I would not vote for that Republican Canary either ....

    • @rmac1828
      @rmac1828 Год назад +1

      Nah, We ain't voting for them CRATS

    • @cloudiap.3410
      @cloudiap.3410 6 месяцев назад +1

      Lol I see this is lost on you

  • @justfacts993
    @justfacts993 22 дня назад

    You’re misinformed, John is half Puerto Rican.👀

  • @Abiwrl
    @Abiwrl 7 месяцев назад +1

    The indigenous people of the beautiful island of Puerto Rico (Taíno) are descendants of Venezuelan indigenous people (Arahuacos). Such a beautiful island with such beautiful culture.

  • @sircasm6578
    @sircasm6578 Год назад +2

    John is 3-4 months away from transitioning. Tops 😅

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 Год назад

      Get a life. Nothing but pathetic nonsense from the right.

  • @eclipseUFO
    @eclipseUFO 16 дней назад

    Ok the Spanish Empire, and the American Spanish war, that could be WW1.. and WW2 is Japan and Germany ancient history lessons. The American troop invasion of Puerto Rico 1898s
    I got my straight (A's) and (S+) history lesson 😍 it's all started with Christopher Columbus. 1400s and the Spanish Empire 1500s and 1600s 1700s and 1800s it's the Spanish Empire had end it, the American won the war ended the Spanish empire.
    The native boricua tianos indigenous tribe who started 1000s and 1100s and 1200s and 1300s and 1400s🤔

  • @devoradamaris
    @devoradamaris Год назад +1

    🤲🕊🤲sharing

  • @joeberraco5883
    @joeberraco5883 5 месяцев назад

    Leguizamo is not Puerto Rican.

  • @reneekad
    @reneekad Год назад

    Sorry the approach should have allowed me to grow in my industries.

    • @reneekad
      @reneekad Год назад

      It didn’t. That sort of needs to change.

  • @reginaerekson9139
    @reginaerekson9139 Год назад

    Weren’t they visiting trump tower? 0:00

  • @aurora_occidentalis2248
    @aurora_occidentalis2248 Год назад +1

    Joe Biden was “sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.”

  • @ilmco
    @ilmco Год назад +3

    propaganda is reloading 👨🏻‍💻

  • @fennix18able
    @fennix18able Год назад +3

    Statehood for Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

  • @caesarrodriguez1320
    @caesarrodriguez1320 6 месяцев назад +1

    @conspiracaesar 💯🇵🇷‼️

  • @bigdurk7761
    @bigdurk7761 Год назад +2

    Build the wall!!!

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 Год назад +9

      Puerto Rico are Americans.

    • @jayp4567
      @jayp4567 Год назад

      We’re us citizens bozo 🤡

    • @adancruzgames
      @adancruzgames Год назад +4

      @@yvonneplant9434 U.S citizens

    • @ilimari
      @ilimari Год назад +4

      We have US citizenship 🙄

    • @bigdurk7761
      @bigdurk7761 Год назад

      @@ilimari you are here now revoked!!!

  • @suckyomother5644
    @suckyomother5644 11 месяцев назад +7

    Here we go with the white Puerto Ricans trying to tell the black Puerto Ricans history Bomba is black African Puerto Rican history 🤦🏽‍♂️

    • @lowki07
      @lowki07 11 месяцев назад +7

      There's no black Puerto Rican history, it's just Puerto Rican history.

    • @suckyomother5644
      @suckyomother5644 11 месяцев назад

      @@lowki07 yeah okay keep telling yourself that YT! Puerto Rico black history is rich and it won’t be suppressed ✊🏿

    • @tahdp-emk3231
      @tahdp-emk3231 10 месяцев назад

      And the people enslaved were white then????

    • @justkidding7523
      @justkidding7523 10 месяцев назад +8

      Don’t come on here separating us. We all one. Keep your colorism in check!

    • @zuleykaserrano5441
      @zuleykaserrano5441 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@justkidding7523 thank you I was about to say that!!!