Guaguanco

Guaguanc? is one sub-genre of Cuban rumba, a highly complex rhythmic music and dance style. The traditional line-up consists of:

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• three conga drum parts, namely the tumbadora (lowest), tres-dos (middle, playing a cross-clave counter rhythm), and quinto (highest, solo drum). These parts are also often played on cajones, wooden boxes.
• claves
• palitos (wooden sticks striking the side of the drum) or guagua (kind of woodblock)
• solo singer
• coro (chorus)
• two dancers, one male, one female

Dance, lead vocal and quinto interact in a complex manner.

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Rumba: Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World....

Music: Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody....

Dance: Dance (from Old French dance, further history unknown) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting....